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Unanticipated Consequences of Information Technology
Created byDr. Paul Alan Weinzweig
Last updated 12/2018
English

What you'll learn

  • How to adapt to rapid socio-economic changes produced by technology,
  • Minimizing risk in the internet age,
  • Learn the difference between schooling and education,
  • Understanding how governments control people through pain and pleasure,
  • Learn to appreciate the creative power of human energy in a robotic era,
  • How the brain is affected by digital technology.

Course content

6 sections • 11 lectures • 1h 10m total length

  • The View From Mount Apple.7:47

    This course seeks to address the following questions:

    Where are the realistic threats from Artificial Intelligence?

    How is Information Technology and the internet transforming job markets, human psychology, healthcare, and education?

    How does the digital world, expressed as weapons of mass distraction, affect the state of popular culture and the generational divide?

    When does technology become technopoly?

    It describes the timeline of technological innovation and emphasizes the need for the marriage of two cultures – science and the humanities.

Requirements

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Description

Where are the realistic threats from Artificial Intelligence? How is information technology and the internet transforming job markets, human psychology, medicine, and education? How does the digital world, expressed as weapons of mass distraction, affect the state of popular culture and the generational divide? When does technology become technopoly? This course reflects on the serious directions in which technology enhances and distorts the qualities which make us human. From character to consciousness, to the ties that bind us together as families, communities and nations, the unprecedented proliferation of consumer technology is molding our future in ways we can barely fathom. This course emphasizes the importance of balancing technology and humanistic values.

Who this course is for:

  • Teachers and others affected by rapid change

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