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Technological Opportunities for Humanity
Opportunities for new technology in daily life based on present science.
Criteria for technological advances to be useful and wanted by
individuals.  Obstacles to the implementation and use of the different
kinds of technology.  Products vs. systems.  Discrepancies between
people want and use and what is thought to be good.  Technology in
fiction, especially science fiction.  Futurism. Anti-technological
attitudes and movements.  The technologies include computers,
transportation of goods and people, medicine, utilities, space travel.
VTSS 160: TECHNOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR HUMANITY

Instructor: John McCarthy

	We can look at techology either from the point of view
of opportunity or from the point of view of dangers.  This course
looks at the opportunities, leaving dangers mainly for other
courses.

	At any given time, science makes possible many more
opportunities than technology and society get around to
realizing.  This is more true today than it was 100 years ago,
because the social inhibitions to many kinds of technology
have increased.