Humane New Worlds

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INSTRUCTOR: John Clark

SECTION: U20

SCHEDULE: Tuesday, Thursday, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM

Course Description


This course invites students to think about future societies.  It assumes that weather variability, technological advance, and hardly imaginable social changes will cause humans to re-order their societies in coming decades.  Change is an inevitable process in the evolution of human societies; only the scale of future change is in question. Students will work in groups to imagine and design new physical and social systems.  Student groups will not only consider emergent technologies, and imagine completely new ones, but they will think about how new economic, energy, and transportation systems could be integrated.