This course will explore how cultural technologies influence and change many aspects of society including religious views, politics, war, economic development, science, art, music and other dimensions of the world's civilization. We will examine human history punctuated by major breakthroughs in cultural technologies including ideographic/syllabic writing, alphabetic writing, printing, photography, telegraph, telephone, sound recording, motion pictures, radio, television, computers, the internet, smart phones, robotics and beyond. The culminating activity for this course is a project designed to showcase how current and future technology is likely changing our global civilization in one of the thematic societal areas discussed.