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Before Week 1
You will complete this assignment by visiting the Before We Begin section of ShannonWeb.
- Review Syllabus, Calendar, Deliverables and Course Policies in ShannonWeb
- Set up your Slack profile
- Download and install Signal
- Complete the Introduce Yourself and Learning Contract posts in Slack
Week 1, Classes 1 & 2 | Introduction To DT&L
- During Class
- Introduction to DT&L
- DT&L alumni discussion
Week 2, Class 3 I Disruptive Innovation
Monday: Labor Day – No Class
- Before Class
- Review and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss Professor Christiansen’s theory of Disruptive Innovation
- Review current events
- Discuss DT&L Project
- Team Organization?
- Project Focus?
Week 3, Classes 4 & 5 | Privacy
- Before Class
- Read and prepare the following materials
- Why Privacy Matters
- Right To Privacy
- The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
- Right To Be Forgotten
- Laws and Ethics Can’t Keep Pace with Technology
- Privacy And Security, Part 1: What Did Congress Just Do To My Privacy?, a conversation with Tony Romm, Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode
- This Is How Much the Internet Knows About You, a conversation with Manoush Zomorodi , Drew D’Agostino, Sara Watson and Erin Curry
- Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Way Behind New Health-Care Technology
- The 3 Most Absurdly Outdated Internet Laws
- Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us
- India, Now The World’s Laboratory For Privacy Issues
- How to See What the Internet Knows About You (And How to Stop It)
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss this week’s materials
- Review current events
Week 4, Classes 6 & 7 | Security & Surveillance
- Before Class
- Read and prepare the following materials
- Hacker Lexicon: What Is The Digital Millennium Copyright Act?
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986
- Researchers Use Ridesharing Cars to Sniff Out a Secret Spying Tool
- US Government Demands Details On All Visitors To Anti-Trump Protest Website
- Smile For The Camera
- Data Mapping National IDs Around the World
- Welcome to Our Global Censorship and Surveillance Platform
- Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy
- Cartapping: How Feds Have Spied On Connected Cars For 15 Years
- Encryption and Privacy in 2016
- How An Obsessive Recluse Blew The Lid Off The Secret Technology Authorities Use To Spy On People’s Cellphones
- When Your Conspiracy Theory Is True, a conversation With Manoush Zomorodi and Daniel Rigmaiden
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss this week’s materials
- Review current events
- Deliverable
- POV #1
- POV available on Sunday no later than 10a
- Submit initial response in Slack channel no later than Saturday at 11p
- POV #1
Week 5, Classes 8 & 9 | Protecting Your Privacy
- Before Class
- Read and prepare the following materials
- A First Look At Digital Security
- There is No More Encryption Debate: Backdoors Threaten the Whole World
- What Exactly is End-to-End Encryption?
- Privacy And Security, Part 2: How Do I Protect My Privacy Online?, a conversation with Tony Gambacorta, Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode
- There Are Plenty Of RFID-Blocking Products, But Do You Need Them?
- Taking Your Passwords With You Anywhere
- Winning The Debate On Encryption — A 101 Guide For Politicians
- How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online
- Famed Hacker Kevin Mitnick Shows You How to Go Invisible Online
- The Best Browser Extensions that Protect Your Privacy
- How To Encrypt Your Entire Life In Less Than An Hour
- Tor and its Discontents
- Digital Privacy At The U.S Border
- How To Scrub Your Private Data From ‘People Finder’ Sites
- What To Do If Your Phone Is Seized By The Police
- Digital Security Tips for Protesters
- 5 Ways a USB Stick Can Improve Your Security
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss this week’s materials
- Review current events
- Deliverable
- POV #1
- Comment period in Slack channel is available through Saturday at 11p
- DT&L Project
- Post progress and content update to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- POV #1
Week 6, Classes 10 & 11 | Finding The Dots | Protecting Your Privacy
- During Class
- More discussion of the dots …
- DT&L project content development; publishing on digital platforms
- Review current events
- Deliverable
- DT&L Project
- Post progress and content update to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- DT&L Project
Week 7, Class 12 | Finding The Dots | Future Thinking
Monday: Fall Break – No Class
- Before Class
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss the Future Thinking dots …
- Review current events
- Deliverable
- DT&L Project
- Post progress and content update to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- DT&L Project
Week 8, Classes 13 & 14 | Finding The Dots | Future Thinking
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- We will focus on the 2017 Internet Trends Report and examine the progression of developments since 2015
- DT&L project content development; publishing on digital platforms
- Review current events
- Deliverables
- POV #2
- POV available on Sunday no later than 10a
- Submit initial response in Slack channel no later than Saturday at 11p
- DT&L Project
- Post progress and content update to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- POV #2
Week 9, Classes 15 & 16 | Finding The Dots | Internet Trends
- Before Class
- Read and prepare the following materials
- Asking the Right Questions About AI, by Yonaton Zunger
- Can We Build AI Without Losing Control Over It? presented by Sam Harris
- 3 Principles For Creating Safer AI presented by Stuart Russell
- Get Ready For Hybrid Thinking presented by Ray Kurzweil
- The Wonderful And Terrifying Implications Of Computers That Can Learn presented by Jeremy Howard
- How Computers Are Learning To Be Creative presented by Blaise Agüera y Arcas
- How Will Artificial Intelligence Affect Your Life, presented by Jeff Dean
- How Computers Learn To Recognize Objects Instantly presented by Joseph Redmon
- Don’t Fear Intelligent Machines. Work With Them presented by Garry Kasparov
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss the AI dots …
- Review current events
- Deliverables
- POV #2
- Comment period in Slack channel is available through Saturday at 11p
- DT&L Project
- Post progress and content update to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- POV #2
Week 10, Classes 17 & 18 | Finding The Dots | Artificial Intelligence
- During Class on Monday
- More discussion of the dots …
- Review current events
- During Class on Wednesday
- Discussion with Frank Diana, Principal, The Future of Business, Tata Consultancy Services
Week 11, Classes 19 & 20 | Connecting The Dots | Algorithms and Their Unintended (?) Outcomes
- Before Class
- Read and prepare the following materials
- We’re Building A Dystopia Just To Make People Click On Ads, presented by Zeynep Tufecki
- Is Facebook Spying On You?, presented by Reply All
- Privacy By Design: Humanizing Analytics, presented by Marie Wallace
- Persuasion and Control, a conversation with Sam Harris and Zeynep Tufecki
- Why It’s So Hard To Trust Facebook
- Millennials Are Dead. Long Live Generation C
- Digging Into Facebook’s File on You
- Propublica: Breaking the Black Box
- AI & The Future of Work presented by Volker Hirsch
- How AI Can Bring On A Second Industrial Revolution presented by Kevin Kelly
- How The Future Of Work Is Not “Jobs”, a conversation with Rudy Karsan
- How To Become Relevant When A Robot Takes Your Job, a conversation with Pablos Holman
- The Jobs We’ll Lose To Machines — And The Ones We Won’t presented by Anthony Goldbloom
- Read and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss this week’s materials
- Review current events
- Deliverable
- POV #3
- POV available on Sunday no later than 10a
- Submit initial response in Slack channel no later than Saturday at 11p
- DT&L Project
- Post progress and content update to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- POV #3
Week 12, Classes 21 & 22 | Connecting The Dots | The Ethics Of All This
- Before Class
- Review and prepare the following materials
- Digital Ethics And The Future Of Humans In A Connected World, presented by Gerd Leonhard
- Machine Intelligence Makes Human Morals More Important presented by Zeynep Tufecki
- The Future Of Technology And Humanity, presented by Gerd Leonhard
- Being Human in a Digital Age, presented by Joel Comm
- Review and prepare the following materials
- During Class
- Discuss this week’s materials
- Review current events
- Deliverable
- POV #3
- Comment period in Slack channel is available through Saturday at 11p
- DT&L Project
- Post Project Summary to DT&L blog no later than Wednesday at 11p
- POV #3
Week 13, Class 23 | Connecting The Dots | Future of Work
Wednesday: Thanksgiving Break – No Class
- During Class on Monday
- Discussion focusing on the effect of technology and innovation on the practice of law with Leonard T. Nuara, Founding Partner at Flatiron Law Group LLP
Week 14, Classes 24 & 25 | Project Presentations
- Before Class
- Post presentation materials to Slack team channel no later than Sunday at 3p
- During Class Monday
- Climate Summary and Presentation
- 4-IR Education Summary and Presentation
- During Class Wednesday
- Energy Summary and Presentation
- Gene Therapy Summary and Presentation
Week 15, Classes 26 & 27 | Project Presentations
- Before Class
- Post presentation materials to Slack team channel no later than Sunday at 3p
- During Class Monday
- Machine Learning Summary and Presentation
- Quantum Computing Summary and Presentation
- During Class Wednesday
- Digital Transformation Summary and Presentation