Did you know 2.0 video

• An official update to the original "Shift Happens" video from Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, this June 2007 update includes new and updated statistics, thought-provoking questions and a fresh design....

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

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Technology in Philosophy

• Martin Heidegger
  • Info in English http://www.beyng.com/ereignis.html
  • German Heidegger Society
• Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser U Canada Chair of Philosophy of Technology
  • http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/
• Hubert L. Dreyfus, U of Berkeley
  • http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/

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Martin Heidegger (26 Sept. 1889 - 26 May 1976)

• Credited with foundational insights for the rise of phenomenology and existentialism, also philosophy of technology
• …we should like to prepare a free relationship to it [technology]. The relationship will be free if it opens our human existence to the essence of technology.  (“The Question Concerning Technology”, 1954)

          Essence of Technology = Enframing; Saving Power = poiesis

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Andrew Feenberg

• A book on Feenberg's philosophy of technology - Democratizing Technology (2006)
• Critical Theory of Technology (Oxford University Press, 1991 - complete book online @ UofT Lib's) [revised edition 200?]
• His Approach to the Philosophical Study of Technology (presentation at Xerox PARC in 1996 http://www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/Method1.htm

1. Hermeneutic Constructivism (empiricism+interpretation)
2. Historicism (flexibility *determinism*, TKuhn)
3. Technical Democracy (reappropriations/T-pubilc)
4. Meta-Theory of Technology – rethinking Heidegger, Habermas, Latour, Borgmann…

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Hubert Dreyfus

• What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critque of Artificial Reason (MIT Press, 1992) [1972]

          1st sentence: The attempts at language translation by computers had the earliest success, the most           extensive and expensive research, and the most unequivocal failure…

• Mind Over Machine (Free Press, 1986)
• Being-In-The-World (MIT Press, 1991)
• Thinking in Action: On the Internet (Routledge. Revised 2nd edition, May 2002)
• “Anonymity vs. Commitment: The Dangers of Education" in R. Scharff & V. Dusek (2003)

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In Neuroscience/Psychology

• iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the Modern Mind

         Gary Small, neuroscientist; Gigi Vorgan, author

         http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061340338

• "While high-tech immersion can accelerate learning and boost creativity, it also has its glitches, among them   the meteoric rise in ADD diagnoses, increased social isolation, and Internet addiction. To compete and thrive in the age of brain evolution, and to avoid these potential drawbacks, we must adapt, and iBrain—with its Technology Toolkit—equips all of us with the tools and strategies needed to close the brain gap."

                                                                                                                                       Harper Collins 

• "Their insights are extraordinary, their behaviors unusual. Their brains—shaped by the era of microprocessors, access to limitless information, and 24-hour news and communication—are remapping, retooling, and evolving. They're not superhuman. They're your twenty-something coworkers, your children, and your competition. Are you keeping up?"

                                                                                                                                         Harper Collins

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In Sociology

• Patricia T. Clough, Sociology, CUNY
  • The Affective Turn (2007)
  • Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Technology (2000)

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In Education

Digital Youth MIT Press Series http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=170

Sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org

• Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth, edited by W. Lance Bennett
• Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility, edited by Miriam J. Metzger and Andrew J. Flanagin
• Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected, edited by Tara McPherson
• The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning, edited by Katie Salen
• Youth, Identity, and Digital Media, edited by David Buckingham

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In Genomics: Homo Evolutis? 

• Juan Enriquez @ TED – the arrival of Homo Evolutis

          http://www.ted.com/talks/juan_enriquez_shares_mindboggling_new_science.html

• “Enriquez was the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project, and has published  widely on topics from the technical (global nucleotide data flow) to the sociological (gene research and national competitiveness), and was a member of Celera Genomics founder Craig Venter's marine-based team to collect genetic data from the world's oceans."

                                                                      From http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/juan_enriquez.html

• "Formerly CEO of Mexico City's Urban Development Corporation and chief of staff for Mexico's secretary of state, Enriquez played a role in reforming Mexico's domestic policy and helped negotiate a cease-fire with Zapatista rebels. He is a Managing Director at Excel Medical Ventures, a life sciences venture capital firm, and the chair and CEO of Biotechonomy, a research and investment firm helping to fund new genomics firms. The Untied States of America, his latest book, looks at the forces threatening America's future as a unified country.”

                                                                      From http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/juan_enriquez.html

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