Assignment

Write a double-spaced on each one - a single page for each will be fine.

1. Give an example of where you have found the boundary between science and technology to be difficult to determine and how you sorted out the distinction.

2. Given an example of where you may have found Descartes' methods helpful - remember that Descartes went through a rigorous process of reducing all of what passed for knowledge to that one irreducible point of "I think, therefore I am." Where have you needed to clear your mind of all preconceptions in order to learn something new?

3. Give a practical example of where you have experienced that revolutionary change from the Industrial/Smokestack Revolution to the Knowledge/Communications Revolution. Don't just use computerization - that is just too obvious and easy.

4. What preconceptions did you bring to the Technology, Society, and Culture course - maybe even just on the three words of the title - that might not serve you very well and need to be overcome as the course begins?