Syllabus
1. Technologies, history, and history of technology
2. Predecessors, computing before computers
3. Digital data, implications of digitalization
4. World War II and acceleration of technological progress
5. Silicon Valley and personal computer
6. Internet before 1994
7. Money and investors
8. Internet since 1994
9. Copyright
10. Startup
11. Artificial intelligence
12. Technologies of foreseeable future
Annotation
The aim of the course is to teach students to think about digital technology with two new ways: first, in historical context, both in economic and business terms. This will complement the usual two basic views, ie.
Users' ("riding a car") and technological ("look under the hood"). Graduate should be able to analyze business models of current and future digital technology, distinguish marketing and promotion from reality, explain and predict to some extent evolution in digital markets.
Interpretation is based on specific examples and stories from which we aim to generalize the needy.