8th session: Technological Change
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We will discuss the following questions:
> What is technology? > How does technology evolve? > Will technological progress overtake us? |
This session's tasks consist of 3 activities (and some voluntary material: check it out!)
1- Watch: Watch the following lectures. You are expected to take your own notes. For studying, 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!). You can choose between two formats:
Slides_DTSC_TechnologicalChange_Hilbert.pdf Download Slides_DTSC_TechnologicalChange_Hilbert.pdf
Notes_DTSC_TechnologicalChange_Hilbert.pdf Download Notes_DTSC_TechnologicalChange_Hilbert.pdf
DTSC: 8.1 Digital Strategies: how to manage digital change? (12:03 min)
DTSC: 8.2 Technological Change: what tech is and how it evolves (18:15)
DTSC: 8.3 Why does technological change accelerate? (23:12)
DTSC: 8.4 How does technology evolve? (33:52)
DTSC: 8.5 Will technological progress overtake us? (15:10)
(total 1h 43 min)
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:
In this session, we have an interactive task that refers to the reading
- 8th session- Reading Question
- Additional voluntary:
How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future Links to an external site.
Wait, but why? The AI Revolution: the road to super-intelligence
Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns Links to an external site.
What is the relationship between exponentials and logarithms? 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) |
