Residential Society and Technology College

Advisor: Kelly Finley kfinley@bucknell.edu

Description: As social scientists, we view these questions as crucial ones.  In Soc-Tech, you will evaluate how predictions have been made in the past, and whether our increasing command of technology has improved our ability to predict our own future.  You will also examine how such predictions have influenced our past decisions and how our success with these past predictions may influence the decisions we currently face.  We will also consider how to cope with the inherent uncertainty in these predictions.  We will ask such broad questions as whether humans can accurately predict complex weather systems, climate change, the economy, social change, and the future of medicine.  In other words, can humans actively shape their futures, or are we prisoners of the fates?  How should governments make policy based on uncertain predictions?  What are the ethical questions raised by these enquiries?

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