HUMN - Technology And Culture

Referencing the Learning Resources below, choose a question in the research project list below and answer it in relation to an issue in literature and technology that is covered in the learning resources below.

Learning Resources

How AI is revolutionising the role of the literary critic | Aeon Essays : 

https://aeon.co/essays/how-ai-is-revolutionising-the-role-of-the-literary-critic

Gregory Heyworth: How I’m discovering the secrets of ancient texts | TED Talk | TED.com : https://www.ted.com/talks/gregory_heyworth_how_i_m_discovering_the_secrets_of_ancient_texts

Brave New World, Plato’s Republic, and Our Scientific Regime | The New Atlantis : https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/brave-new-world-platos-republic-and-our-scientific-regime

Scientists Fallen Among Poets | The New Atlantis : https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/scientists-fallen-among-poets

Questions (the research project list)

1. What      is the problem for which this technology is the solution?
2. Whose      problem is it?
3. Which      people and what institutions might be most seriously harmed by a      technological solution?
4. What      new problems might be created because we have solved this problem?
5. What      sort of people and institutions might acquire special economic and      political power because of technological change?
6. What      changes in language are being enforced by new technologies, and what is      being gained and lost by such changes?

This assignment needs to be a minimum of 200 words.