Technology likes to look inevitable — as if phones, feeds, and algorithms simply happened, like weather. They did not. Every system you touch today is a pile of decisions somebody made: what to collect, whom to design for, which tasks to automate. Decisions have reasons, and reasons can be argued with — so in this course, we argue, on purpose and on the record.
| Discussion | The argument |
|---|---|
| Who Owns Your Data | Your ordinary day leaves a trail. Whose is it? |
| Can a Machine Be Biased | No opinions, no feelings — biased anyway? |
| Whose Innovations Count | Why the standard origin story is too small |
| Will AI Take the Jobs | What automation actually does to work |
| Debugging Is the Job | Why professionals spend their days on bugs |
One rule governs all of them, straight from Our Classroom Norms: we argue with ideas, never at people. Come ready to change your mind — that is what the arguing is for.