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The Humanities help us to understand our world by framing it in a particular view. One meaningful “frame” for today’s community college student presents how machines change humankind. Changes for better and worse result. To understand these changes is to control life in the 21st Century.

Technology and Society (Humanities 110) is a three credit elective course, offered by North Carolina Community Colleges. The course, offered in traditional face-to-face, online and hybrid formats, examines ancient, emerging and modern technical changes. Don Ward’s version of the class also offers a growing number of lecture podcasts. These podcasts can be accessed at http://web.me.com/dward7097/Site/Podcast/Podcast.html.

Technology and Society examines a number of topics looking at the ancient, changing and modern forms. The topics discussed include: Entertainment, Health, The Environment, Robotics, Online Education, The Changing Workforce, and a discussion of how the future will realize “The Impossible.” New lecture topics under development include “Sports Technologies” and “Hygiene and Grooming.”