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Smart environments intimately link the physical world and the virtual world allowing for both benefits and afflictions. While no technology is, per se, good or evil, all technologies have the capabilities to provide either, or both, when they are deployed. People, by their very nature, will seek to maximize their benefits from technologies while minimizing the drawbacks; going so far as to change their fundamental behaviors to achieve their desired end and using the technology for both good and evil. Pervasive technologies, such as the widespread creation of the smart systems and environments that exist today, therefore, have the capability to fundamentally change societal norms and societies more broadly. In this paper, we examine smart environments, their technologies, and trends and present some of the social and ethical implications of this ongoing and fundamental merging of physical and digital lives.
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Chakrabarty, S., Engels, D.W. (2022). The Social and Ethical Implications of Smart Environments in the Age of Big Data. In: Somani, A.K., Mundra, A., Doss, R., Bhattacharya, S. (eds) Smart Systems: Innovations in Computing. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 235. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2877-1_15
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