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The Technological Revolution: Can we develop responsible technology on a global scale? Case Studies and Conclusions
***See the Slides from the PowerPoint that Bob would have summarized the course with below.***
Objectives:
- Understand shalom, sustainability, responsibility, and other norms that might lead toward a just understanding, development, and use of technology.
- Participants present examples/cases of technology developed as a course project
Readings:
- Monsma: Responsible Technology, Chapers 9-12
- Tenner: Why Things Bite Back - Chapter12
- Rabbi Arthur Waskow 2000. Radical Shabbat: Free Time, Free People. Sojourners 29(3):40-42.
- Whatever Happened to the Eight Hour Day, Sojourners 29(3):43.
- McKibben, B 2004. Sins of Emission. Sojourners 33(3)8-12
- Power Bratton, S. 2004. Rockfish, Redfish, Stockfish, Foodfish: Seven biblical principles for the care of Creation. Sojourners 33(3):22-25
- Myers, C. 2004. To Serve and Preserve. Sojourners 33(3):28-38.
- Gardner, G. 1999. Why Share? WorldWatch 12(4):10-20 [Blackboard E-reading]
- Gardner, G. & P. Sampat. 1999. Making things last: reinventing our material culture. The Futurist 33(5)24-28.
Assignments:
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Project Executive Summary (Due on Dec. 7, but no later than Dec. 14): Post an executive summary of your project to inform the class what you have done and how you have met the project expectations. Also put all of your references and links (if you want them to be "hot" make sure they are on a separate line with a space in front of the URL and that they are complete - Example: http://www.bethel.edu/~kisrob/ens305kx/project/project.html)
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Project Presentation (Presented Dec. 7 - any remaining due no later than Dec. 14): Present an oral overview of your project and how you have addressed your work on how a given technology might be "transformed".
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Focus Response 5 (Due on Dec. 10, but no later than Dec. 14): Monsma (and others) tackles what we should do, with disscussion about sufficient design and normative principles for design that if followed might put us on a better road. The Soujourners articles look at Christian principles and responsibilities. So, based upon your reading of these materials and upon your exposure to "other views" of technology in this course, where do you think technology is/should be taking us as we move into the early years of a new millenium? How will such views influence life as we know it in the future? What role should Christians play? What is transforming technology?
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Visit the online TechnoTalk Discussion forum and Post a message at least two days during this final week of the course between Dec. 7 and Dec. 14.
Here are the slides from my final powerpoint that would have summarized how we might begin transforming technology. However, you all did such a good job that I really didn't need to show it during class - just another powerpoint (not that we had time anyway)!
Your challenge might be to see if you can find all of these concepts in the reading assignments for Week 5 as listed on the web site schedule page. THANKS again for sticking it out and for making the course a success.
The video Keeping the Earth: Scentific and Religious Perspectives on the Environment is a great summary of how we as Christians might help in this transforming process and it is available as a quicktime stream on the E-Readings page of Blackboard.
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