COM 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Techne, Social Evolution
27 Jan 2017
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**assignment #1 will be due via dropbox (as a word document) on thursday! Consider this to be the first part of the final paper. information and communication technologies, and how they have changed your environment. Explain the icts you use frequently, and how familiar you are with. Submit a reflection paper (2 pages) describing what you think about new icts. Do you think you are (cid:498)tech savvy? (cid:499) After the assignment is due, sky will be posting opportunities for us to go in and meet with him to discuss our papers, so that he can help us to start molding them for the final paper. Two claims come from nye: (tents, drums, bows, ovens) Nye defines technology in terms of evolution: e. g. most native americans did not write. Rather, technologies have been used for social evolution. (cid:499) (cid:498)necessity is often not the mother of invention. When humans possess a tool, they excel at finding new uses for it.
