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We'll use these novels as examples of where authors thought that technologies might lead and how those compare to today's realities. Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake includes many examples of genetic engineering for food and medicine as well as changes in media consumption and computer gaming. We'll look at Atwood's vision of a world after a global, lethal virus outbreak compared to the COVID-19 pandemic. On a lighter note, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy provides a fun look at the potential future of artificial intelligence with emotional computers, infinitely improbably navigational functions, and computer-run social science experiments on a planetary scale to find "the meaning of life, the universe, and everything." By donating to this project, you'll provide students with their own paperback book copies they can take anywhere, critically read, and mark up with notes.

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We'll use these novels as examples of where authors thought that technologies might lead and how those compare to today's realities. Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake includes many examples of genetic engineering for food and medicine as well as changes in media consumption and computer gaming. We'll look at Atwood's vision of a world after a global, lethal virus outbreak compared to the COVID-19 pandemic. On a lighter note, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy provides a fun look at the potential future of artificial intelligence with emotional computers, infinitely improbably navigational functions, and computer-run social science experiments on a planetary scale to find "the meaning of life, the universe, and everything." By donating to this project, you'll provide students with their own paperback book copies they can take anywhere, critically read, and mark up with notes.

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