This course sits at the interface between how we use the tools we create and how the tools we create change us in various ways. We will begin by looking at writing as a technology, thinking about the transition from orality to literacy. Literacy changed our brains, transforming us from associative thinkers to linear thinkers, making us less reliant on our memories, and creating a process of innovation that we now call bootstrapping.
We now live in another change moment, as we add new literacies (visual, computer, symbolic, etc) to our existing textual literacy. How do these new literacies change the set of assumptions upon which we live? If writing changed us in certain ways, how will these new literacies change us? Those are the largest questions that dominate our time together in 375.
I look forward to this journey with you!
