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Volume 25 Number 3
Fall 2006
ISTAS `05

Weapons and Wires - Social Implications of ICT and Global Security

 

Guest Editor: Philip J. Chmielewski S.J.

 

DEPARTMENTS

3  Call for Papers - ISTAS`07

4  President’s Message

50 Book Review

52 Living with Technology

 


5  Guest Editor’s Introduction

 

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

8 Freedom of Silence vs Freedom of Speech*

Bogdan Hoanca


16 National Responses to Energy Vulnerability*

Clinton J. Andrews


26 Cyber-Warfare Seen Through a Mariner’s Spyglass*

John Laprise


34 Social Acceptance of RFID*

Christine Perakslis And Robert Wolk


43 Evolution or Revolution? Rise of UAV’s*

Jeffrey M. Sullivan

 

*Refereed articles.

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