Modern Humanities Week 5:

Engineering the Modern: The Rise of Science and Technology and its Impact on Human Society

Exercise: Life According To...

What is technology?

• What Makes Good Technology?
• Definitions and Quotations on Technology
• Metaphors for Nature

Technology and Modernity

• What is modern about...?
• Technology and Modernity - the metanarrative

Technologizing the Self

• Fordism
• Fordism and Taylorism
• Man-Machine from the Greeks to the Computer (Dictionary of the History of Ideas)

Promise and Threat of Technology

• Borgman and the Device Paradigm
• Technological Progress in Stages
• What We Gain, and What We Give Up
• We're All Individuals (...I'm not)
• Technology and Feminism
• Technology vs. Nature - One View