Technology and the Modern World

Catalog description

Explores how technological systems are developed and embedded in the modern world with an eye to playing a role in creating better futures. Examines how machines and techniques can shape institutions, relationships and values. Challenges students to envision futures that they want and work to develop strategies for moving us (and our systems) toward those futures. Analyzes technologies past, present and imagined, and describes the ways in which technologies shape our world and the ways in which we shape those technologies. Through repeated practice in class students play a productive role in and even facilitate conversations that tease out the relationships between values and technological systems.