Note: No formal calendar was created for STS.092, which met weekly for two hours in a seminar/discussion format as described in the
syllabus document.
STS.069 Technology in a Dangerous World
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CLASS # |
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TOPICS / ACTIVITY |
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READINGS |
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ASSIGNMENTS |
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Introduction to Class |
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Gras, Alain. "Big is Beautiful."
The Role of MIT in a Dangerous World. (Continued).
Castells, Manuel. "Prologue." In The Network Society.
Castells, Manuel. "The Rise of the Fourth World." In The Network Society.
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Reading Assignments.
Risk, Safety, and Accidents.
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Reading Assignments
Questions to be discussed |
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Videotape of MIT Teach-in.
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Homework due: Two Assignments.
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CBS Documentary on World Trade Center Attack of 9/11/01 |
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Discussion of Documentary |
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Questions on Reading: “Missile Accuracy” MacKenzie.
Questions on Reading: "MIT as System-Builder: Sage." Hughes. (One Day After Class #4).
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Homework #1 due.
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5 |
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The Role of MIT in a Dangerous World |
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General Information. |
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Homework #2 due. |
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Guest: Claude Canizares |
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Homework #3 due. |
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Technological Disasters
Guest: Wade Roush, HSSST Alumnus, Now with Technology Review. |
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Roush, Wade. "Catastrophe and Control."
Perrow, Charles. "Normal Accidents."
Galison, Peter. "An Accident of History."
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Risk, Safety, and Accidents |
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Project proposal for single-authored report due. (Homework #4) |
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Guest: Jamie Lewis Keith |
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Speech by President Charles M. Vest, MIT. |
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Risk, Safety, and Accidents (Continued) |
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Environmental Risks |
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Assignment: Environmental Risks. |
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Tour of the MIT Museum |
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Current Events. |
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Homework #5. |
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Discussion of MIT Museum Tour
Discussion of Castells Reading
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Homework #5 due.
Turn in first draft of single-authored report. (Homework #4).
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Further Discussion of Castells
Handouts will be provided in Class #13
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Castells. "The Global Criminal Economy." |
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Root Causes.
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"Artificial Hearts," by Shelley McKellar
Guest: Thomas P. Hughes
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National Security
Guest: Ted Postol
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Technology and Identity. |
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Technology and Identity |
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Technological Imagination. |
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Technological Imagination |
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Technology and Identity. |
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Trust in a Dangerous World |
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Long Paper due. (Refer Homework #3) |
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Root Causes
Guest: David Marks |
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Castells. "The Global Criminal Economy."
David Mark's Slide Presentation. |
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Final Review (PDF) |
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Single-authored report due.
Trust in a Dangerous World.
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Recommendations for MIT |
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Williams, Rosalind. Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. Chap. 1. |
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