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Should We Fear Technology?
PHASE 2: SPRING/SUMMER 2012
JULY 18: Update
One hundred+ have registered. Encourage your friends, parents, neighbors to participate. Here at W2.1, we feel that these are issues that are important to consider. They affect your lives and your education.
Welcome Aboard Message
"BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID."--Geena Davis as Veronica Quaife in The Fly
"However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible."--LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization, 1934.
STUDENTS ((PARENTS and STAFF--Participate in Items 2-4))
PHASE 2: SPRING/SUMMER 2012
JULY 18: Update
One hundred+ have registered. Encourage your friends, parents, neighbors to participate. Here at W2.1, we feel that these are issues that are important to consider. They affect your lives and your education.
Welcome Aboard Message
"BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID."--Geena Davis as Veronica Quaife in The Fly
"However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible."--LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization, 1934.
STUDENTS ((PARENTS and STAFF--Participate in Items 2-4))
- Read "The Machine Stops" by E.M. Forster "The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine." (blurb Wikipedia)
- Listen to an interview with Nick Bolton. His book is I Live in the Future and Here's How It Works. IF YOU DIDN'T ALREADY FIGURE THIS OUT, YOU ONLY HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE LAST 7 MINS. OR SO.
3. Watch a TED Talk given by Sherry Turkle. Her book is Alone Together.
4. Read Chapter 1: "Why Tweens and Teens Hate School" Larry Rosen's book Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way
They Learn
They Learn
TAKE IT TO ANOTHER LEVEL
Read one of the following fiction titles:
(All blurbs via amazon.com)
Feed byM.T. Anderson "Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains."
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline "Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia."
1984 by George Orwell "Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal."
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick "By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans."
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut "Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality."
Read one of the following fiction titles:
(All blurbs via amazon.com)
Feed byM.T. Anderson "Identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains."
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline "Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia."
1984 by George Orwell "Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, which demands absolute obedience and controls him through the all-seeing telescreens and the watchful eye of Big Brother, symbolic head of the Party. In his longing for truth and liberty, Smith begins a secret love affair with a fellow-worker Julia, but soon discovers the true price of freedom is betrayal."
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick "By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . . They even built humans."
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut "Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines. Paul’s rebellion is vintage Vonnegut—wildly funny, deadly serious, and terrifyingly close to reality."