Course Description
This course (INF2130H – Unanticipated Consequences of IT) examines the negative and positive unanticipated consequences of information technology at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. Students will learn to recognize these impacts, understand their causes, predict their future trends, and develop proactive measures to mitigate harmful impacts and enhance positive ones. Adopting a multi-disciplinary perspective, this course integrates various theories and concepts, drawing on examples from past, present, emerging, and future information technologies. This course equips students with knowledge and skills to understand, predict, and influence the evolution of information technology amid the exponentially increasing ubiquity and power of intelligent machines and humans’ dependence on them.
This course can be used to fulfil the “Critical Perspectives” Professional Requirement.