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1. Questions to Consider

   • How is a technology different from a tool, if at all?
   • Are all technologies liberating technologies?
   • Are there examples of technologies that do more to oppress than to liberate us?
   • Do technologies come attached to ideologies?
   • Do users need to understand the technologies they use?
   • What are the implications of the Internet for “liberation movements”?
   • Are governments able to suppress liberating technologies?
   • Do people ever willingly buy technologies that reduce their own freedom? Have you?
   • Do women and girls face extra barriers in their access to technology?
   • Would cheap renewable energy be the ultimate liberating technology?
   • Have Wikipedia and other online sources freed us from the elite management of knowledge?

2. Denying the Limits of Nature

   • Freedom from Death & Disease: Vaccination, Antibiotics, and Sanitation
   • So What if You Were Born That Way?: Transforming the Mind and Body
   • The Walking Alive: Prosthetics & New Techniques for Defeating Paralysis
   • Seeing What Goes Bump: The Power of the Electric Light
   • To Baby or Not to Baby: The Impact of Reproductive Technology
   • Learning from Dracula: Immortality and the Science (?) of Transhumanism
   • The Lazarus Effect: Pushing the Frontiers of Resuscitation

3. Defying the Limits of Society

   • Read All About It: The Early Legacy of the Printing Press
   • Machine Wash Only: Household Technologies and Women’s Liberation
   • You Can Get There From Here: The Impact of the Train and Automobile
   • The Tweet Heard Around the World: Social Media and Social Upheaval
   • Learning.com: The Internet and the Open Education Movement
   • The Pocket Veto: Mobile Technology and Democratic Development

4. Additional Questions & Cases to Discuss (Examples)