This course considers factors crucial to successful functioning of human communities. It reviews problems identified during earlier study in order to propose solutions, whether ideals, dreams, or probabilities supported by information, ecological, technological, and media theories, applying landmark texts to the worlds of present and future.

Antirequisite(s): the former MIT 4100F/G if taken in 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23; the former MIT 3405F/G if taken in 2023-2024.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.