Technology & Society

1 Course Unit

This class examines the relationship between technology and the societies in which different technologies emerge and are adopted (and adapted), with a focus on information and communication technologies from the invention of writing to LLMs. Topics include different definitions of information, different types of information storage and retrieval technologies (books, clocks), institutions associated with information and communication technology (archives, libraries), and the invention of computing and machine learning. Spring Also Offered As: HSOC 0600, STSC 0600 1 Course Unit