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Innovation and Revolution:

The Relationship Between Technology and Society

Explore

• Define invention and innovation;

• Understand the difference between invention and innovation, and their revolutionary potential;

• Explore the characteristics of innovation and innovators;

• Consider the concept of a technological revolution and the implications such a revolution has on our lives and communities, social, political, economic and religious systems;

• Define technology, and assess how various forms of technology impact us by both improving and complicating our lives?

• Research when and where innovations and revolutions have taken place in Judaism and in Jewish communities, and consider what this means for us today;

• Explore Jewish life in Second Life.

Encounter

• Get an insiders’ tour of the MIT and Harvard stem cell research labs and see for yourself the incredible advanced technology guiding this cutting-edge research;

• Visit the MIT Media Lab and Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society;

• Learn with a professor of technology and engage in conversations about the formal study of technology;

• Meet J.T. Waldman from the Tagged Tanakh project at the Jewish Publication Society and experience what the future of Torah learning looks like;

• Meet representatives from the Jewish Women’s Archive and learn about how they are using technology to archive Jewish women’s accomplishments;

• Visit a local private bio-energy company.

Engage

• Create new Wikipedia entries;

• Beta test new online interactive sites;

• Design and present an activity to your peers from other Genesis courses that weaves together academic, scientific, political, ethical, religious and economic perspectives on Stem Cell research, while also teaching media literacy skills;

• Challenge your Genesis peers on issues around technologies that impact our community and experience during the summer.

Meet our Innovation and Revolution course faculty