3rd week: Technological Change
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This week we deal with the following questions:
> What is technology?
> How does technology evolve? > What are some possible future ICT?
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This week's tasks consist of 3 activities and one voluntary one:
Additionally, after finishing the work of this week, check out the Sample Mid-term Exam Questions, which refer to content of these first three weeks. Can you answer the questions? Is your note taking effective?
1- Watch: Watch the following lectures. You are expected to take your own notes. For this it will be useful having the lecture slides ready (feel free to print them out - this allows you to put your notes into context and save time!)
Slides3_Technological Change_Hilbert.pdf Download Slides3_Technological Change_Hilbert.pdf
ForNotes_Slides3_Technological Change_Hilbert.pdf Download ForNotes_Slides3_Technological Change_Hilbert.pdf
3-1: Intro Technological Change (4:36)
3-2: What is Technology? (21:30)
3-3: How Technology evolves: Combinatorics (30:58)
3-4: How Technology evolves: Disruption (7:46)
3-5: How Technology evolves: Diffusion (11:29)
3-6: Evolutionary Trajectories of ICT (11:50)
3-7: The Singularity is here (19:21)
(total 1h 50min)
2- Read the following text:
Arthur, Brian (2009), “The Nature of Technology: What it is and how it evolves”; Chapter 2 & Chapter 9; click here to find these Chapters: B.Arthur Technology.pdf Download B.Arthur Technology.pdf . For additional excerpts from the book, see: Google Books.
3- Contribute to the online forums:
This week we have one interactive tasks that refers to this week's reading
- Additional voluntary:
More directly from the famous visionary Ray Kurzweil Links to an external site. himself + more on BCI:
How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future Links to an external site.
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Exponential technological progress
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Garry Kasparov: Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them Links to an external site. (15min) |
