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ENGR 101/HUM 200 Technology and Society

ENGR 101/HUM 200 Technology and Society. October 5, 2005. Agenda. Questions from yesterday “Make It Better” assignment Your topic preferences/constraints (turn in index card at end of class) Speculative Fiction (aka sci-fi!), Possible Futures, and the People Who Build Stuff.

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ENGR 101/HUM 200 Technology and Society

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  1. ENGR 101/HUM 200Technology and Society October 5, 2005

  2. Agenda • Questions from yesterday • “Make It Better” assignment • Your topic preferences/constraints (turn in index card at end of class) • Speculative Fiction (aka sci-fi!), Possible Futures, and the People Who Build Stuff

  3. “Make It Better” • If you want to arrange yourselves into a group, please do so. Write group member names down on card and turn in today. • Otherwise, write down up to three general subjects/technologies in which you are interested AND any schedule constraints you may have (i.e. can’t meet after 5 pm any day) and turn in today.

  4. Why Sci-Fi? • Themes from The Diamond Age • Transportation (pedomotive, blades) • Energy (The Feed) • Information dissemination (electronic media; ractives, books!) • Social structures (claves)

  5. Why Sci-Fi? • Themes from The Diamond Age • Transportation (pedomotive, blades) • Energy (The Feed) • Information dissemination (electronic media; ractives, books!) • Social structures (claves)

  6. Why Not Sci-Fi? • Themes from “The Machine Stops” • Transportation • Energy (power plant in France; centralized and distant) • Information Dissemination (lectures, music, The Book) • Social structures (mediated interaction, erasure of family structures, economics, individual choice)

  7. “The Machine Stops” • http://www.tcnj.edu/~casa3/machine_index.html

  8. Possible Futures • Some predictions have been a little better than others

  9. Visionary Transportation • Why don’t we have flying cars? We were promised flying cars!

  10. Transportation in The Diamond Age • Blades • Pedomotive • Airships

  11. Robotics • And robots! We were promised robots!

  12. And Interplanetary Politics…

  13. And What About Intergalactic Travel?

  14. Sci-Fi As Snapshot of Culture

  15. Next class • Read “The Engineering Disciplines” (short) • Read Donald Norman, from The Design of Everyday Things (not short, but interesting!) • Assignment into “Make It Better” groups

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