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03/29/2025 at 07:30 AM
HIST407
Technology and Inequality
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg, P-F, Aud
How are social inequality and technology related? Have technologies exacerbated social tensions or have they ameliorated them? In the age of climate change, pandemics, and economic transformations, this class looks at technology in history to examine previous transitions in production, infrastructures, computing, and pollution. The emphasis is on the interplay between society and technology in the 19th and 20th centuries.