The first week was a pretest, and introductions:

see History of Technology described. & Technology on Blackboard™

All that we are and all that we hope we can be is intimately related to the technology we utilize.

Lesson 1
technical as the hand -vs- head, or is it: brain, heart, and hands together?

Thamus judgment.

Marshal McLuhan on Understanding Media; ABC Australian Broadcasting Corp. 27June 1979, interview. Media as a service that structures "awareness."

Lesson 2
prehistory

Tools as texts that can be read.

fire, domestication, art, artisans:

Lesson 3
Asian historical context

When all the instruments and devices of importance in technology originated in China, India and Persia (Iran) why do these words appear in 17th century Europe for implements that are much older?

The appearance of the word tool in the English language.

tool Old English tol "instrument, implement used by a craftsman or laborer, weapon,"

from

Proto-Germanic *to(w)lam "implement" (cognates: Old Norse tol),

from a verb stem represented by Old English tawian "prepare" (from taw); to make or do, "to prepare" (leather), from Old English tawian "prepare, make ready, make; cultivate," 

The ending is the instrumental suffix -el (as in handle(n.)).

Figurative sense of "person used by another for his own ends" is recorded from 1660s.

Slang meaning "male sexual organ; the penis" first recorded 1550s.

Lesson 4
manufacture to mechanization

Lesson: One, Two , Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Final

Lesson 5
the elements of mechanization

Lesson 6
steam and power

Lesson 7
industrialization

DEBATE

8-9-10
C.P. Snow's argument

Lesson: One, Two , Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Final

Lesson 11
Automation

12
New Ideas, Kaku's three revolutions

13
reports

Newly emerging values

Lesson: One, Two , Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Final