Assignments below are from STS.069 Technology in a Dangerous
World. During Class #3 you will be making notes about the
technological systems you see in the video, or that are implied
by what you see. We will discuss these notes in class that day.
You should review and revise these notes to arrange them in a
legible document, which can be a list or spreadsheet depending
upon your preference, for submission as a homework assignment in
Class #4. You should try to submit this assignment ahead of
class through the "discussion" function of this website. Bring a
hard copy to class. Additional comments on the first assignment:
Students have been asked to read The New York Times (or a
similarly substantial publication) regularly to look for news
relating to the topic of the class. The assignment is to write a
paragraph on some current story that relates to the topic,
describing what the story is and what the relationship is.
Students should go through the collection of clippings and
choose one that interests them. (Th