introduction
What makes knowledge reliable, and how can it outlive its makers?
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Science and Technology
How knowledge grows. How technologies change lives. How societies shape both.
BEGIN WITH A QUESTION
01LECTURE
What makes knowledge reliable?
Start with evidence, explanation, and the ways we preserve and share what we know.
Explore the first lecture →A history of ideas, tools, and change
KNOWLEDGE
Observe and explain
Explore how people have tested claims and passed knowledge between generations and cultures.
TECHNOLOGY
Build and connect
Follow the path from ancient instruments to steam, electricity, computers, and networks.
SOCIETY
Question the consequences
Consider how technical change affects work, daily life, public trust, and collective choices.
Twelve lectures, one connected story
A chronological journey with overlapping histories. Topics may be refined as the course develops.
Tuesday · 10:30–12:30
early civilizations to late antiquity
How did practical needs help people develop systematic knowledge?
Explore lecture →Read booklet →Slides (PDF) ↓LECTURE 03
Knowledge across the medieval world
approximately 500–1500
What happens to knowledge when it crosses languages and cultures?
Explore lecture →Read booklet →Slides (PDF) ↓approximately 1450–1800
How did instruments, publication, and new institutions change scientific authority?
Explore lecture →Read booklet →Slides (PDF) ↓approximately 1450–1900
How did scientific and technical institutions respond to local needs and exchange?
Explore lecture →Read booklet →Slides (PDF) ↓approximately 1750–1850
How did new sources of power change work and daily life?
Explore lecture →Read booklet →Slides (PDF) ↓approximately 1850–1914
Why does an invention need a whole system around it?
Explore lecture →Read booklet →Slides (PDF) ↓approximately 1900–1950, with a brief postwar bridge
What changes when production, media, and science operate at scale?
Explore lecture →Slides forthcomingapproximately 1940s–1980s
Why did programmable electronics transform so many activities?
Explore lecture →Slides forthcomingapproximately 1970s–2000s
How did connected computers change the way people share information and work?
Explore lecture →Slides forthcoming2000s onward
What do connected production and AI add to earlier automation?
Explore lecture →Slides forthcomingcontemporary synthesis
How should societies reason about scientific evidence and technological choices?
Explore lecture →Slides forthcomingThe midterm week has no lecture. The final semester week is reserved for a recap, guest lecture, or another course activity. Calendar dates will be announced separately.