How Digital Technology Shapes Us
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Explore our relationship with AI, robots, computing technology, video games, and much more as you examine the technologies that are rapidly transforming life in the 21st century.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: How Experience Alters the Brain
- 02: Are New Media Shortening Attention Spans?
- 03: Does the Internet Make Us Shallow Thinkers?
- 04: Outsourcing Our Memory
- 05: Human versus Digital Content Curators
- 06: Virtual Realities and Our Sense of Self
- 07: Screen Time’s Impact on Kids
- 08: Video Games and Violence
- 09: Is Digital Technology Ruining Sleep?
- 10: How “Dr. Google” Is Changing Medicine
- 11: The Virtual Therapist
- 12: How Big Data Can Predict the Future
- 13: Is Privacy Dead in the Information Age?
- 14: The Emotional Effects of Social Media
- 15: How Online Dating Transforms Relationships
- 16: Technology and Addiction
- 17: Is the Internet Hurting Democracy?
- 18: The Arts in the Digital Era
- 19: How AI Can Enhance Creativity
- 20: Do We Trust Algorithms over Humans?
- 21: Could Blockchain Revolutionize Society?
- 22: Effects of Technological Metaphors on Science
- 23: Robots and the Future of Work
- 24: Redefining What It Means to Be Human
Taught by
Indre Viskontas
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