Tutorial Schedule

Week of Jan. 5	Introduction and Orientation. No readings. All tutorial groups will meet their tutors.
Week of Jan. 12	Reading: Sale, Kirkpatrick, Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial Revolution - Lessons for the Computer Age (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1995), pp. 261-279.
Week of Jan. 19	Reading: NO READING. Film: "The Luddites."
Week of Jan. 26	Reading: Layton, Edwin T., Jr., "Mirror-Image Twins: The Communities of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America", Technology and Culture 12(1971): 562-580.
Week of Feb. 2	Reading: Seely, Bruce E., "The Diffusion of Science into Engineering: Highway Research at the Bureau of Public Roads, 1900-1940" in Peter J. Hugill and D. Bruce Dickson (eds.), The Transfer and Transformation of Ideas and Popular Culture (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1988), pp. 143-62.
Week of Feb. 9	Reading: NO READING. Mid-term test. Location TBA.
Week of Feb. 16	READING WEEK. No readings. TUTORIALS CANCELLED.
Week of Feb. 23	Reading: NO READING. MAKEUP LECTURE.
Week of Mar. 2	Reading: Kaku, Michio and Trainer, Jennifer, ed., Nuclear Power: Both Sides - The Best Arguments For and Against the Most Controversial Technology (New York: Norton, 1982), pp. 217-245.
Week of Mar. 9	Reading: Holdren, John, "Energy in Transition", Scientific American, September 1990, pp. 157-163.
Week of Mar. 16	Reading: Simon, Herbert A., "The Consequences of Computers for Centralization and Decentralization" in Michael L. Dertouzos and Joel Moses (eds.), The Computer Age: A Twenty Year View (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1979), pp. 212-228.
Week of Mar. 23	Reading: Forester, Tom and Morrison, Percy, "Computerizing the Workplace" in Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990), pp. 140-172.
Week of Mar. 30	Reading: Mazlish, Bruce, "The Fourth Discontinuity", Technology and Culture 8.1(Jan 1967): 1-15.
Week of Apr. 6	Reading: NO READINGS. REVIEW TUTORIAL.