SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Panama Papers, Wireless, Febreze
21 Apr 2016
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Open letter on ai discussion ( http://futureoflife. org/data/documents/research_priorities. pdf) Continue the increase in inequality, make the rich richer. Maybe life will adapt just like it did then. Technology can raise the standard of living as a whole over time. Goes against the institution of the law system. Email group and topic to have it pre- approved. Culture: any group that has the capacity to use tools. One of the big ones, and by this fact, chimps are considered a culture. Tool use, as far as technical advancement, is knowledge. Innovation: necessity is the mother of invention (plato) Whenever there"s a major discovery, society quickly transforms. A lot of this comes from an anthropological definition of what makes a culture, tool use, what makes itself. Great human odyssey is very information, how technology moved large groups of society. Agricultural revolution: people realised that they could control the plants.
