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How Digital Technology Shapes Us

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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

  • 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
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Indre Viskontas

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