Slides
Schedule
By 8:29 PM tonight (13 January 2026) everyone who wants to be in the class should submit the Starting the Course Survey in Canvas: [Canvas Link].
We will make team assignments for your table teams and on-line discussion groups based on the survey submissions, and aim to have these ready by tomorrow.
Readings for Thursday, 15 January:
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Science’s Endless Golden Age. Published in The Invisible Future: the seamless integration of technology into everday life, edited by Peter J. Denning, November 2001. [PDF Link]
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Isaac Asimov, Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014. New York Times, 16 August 1964. [PDF Link]
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Charles C. Mann, We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It. The New Atlantis, Winder 2025. (Just expected to read the introduction webpage (everything in the PDF).) [PDF Link]