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Human beings have
always used technologies.

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But 'What's the difference between a hammer
and the technologies that we use today,

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like smartphones,

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3-D printers, self-driving cars
and medical implants or even robots or

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teaching a class?'
In almost every aspect of life

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technologies play an important role
to help us to do things.

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They expand our capacities
and they even do things on their own.

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Technology has made life easier,
but at the same time,

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it has also made life more complex.

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And the impact of technology can reach far

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beyond the intentions of the designers
and the intentions of their users.

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So 'How would you understand this influence
of technology on human beings

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and on society and how to deal with it
in a responsible way?'

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These will be the questions that
we will work on in this course. We will

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show you how to analyze the relationship
between technology and society.

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We will also show you

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how to use this analysis to help you
design new technologies in a good way.

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Many people believe that the main question
regarding technology is 'Whether

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technology control society or if society
can still control technology?'

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We will give you an alternative approach
in which we recognize that technology

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always helps us understand the world and
shapes our lives, our society, our world.

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But an approach in which we can also take

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responsibility for its influence,
in which we can raise ethical questions.

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In this view technologies,
act as mediators of practices

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and experiences, allowing us to interact
with the world around us.

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Within this approach
of technological mediation,

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we can analyze the influence
of technology on human life.

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And what's more, we can use this approach
for the ethical evaluation

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and the design of new technologies
like artificial intelligence,

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which will play a central role
in the last week of this course.

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The DesignLab of the

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University of Twente will be
an inspiring, background, inspiring

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setting for this course.

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In the DesignLab, we connect science
and society through design, combining

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'High tech and Human touch'.

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The slogan of the entire University of Twente.

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We really hope that
you will join our course.