tues || 11.6: In-class meeting
□ Complete the Discussion of Nim Chimpsky
□ Science, Modernity, and the Idea of Progress in the 1920s, the 1960s, and the 2070s

□ Pass Out Instructions for Essay #3 on Nim Chimpsky [due Friday 11.16 by 11:59 p.m. in the canvas dropbox, with a 24-hour grace period ]

week 12 reading
□ Start Montfort, The Future, Chapters 1-2, pp. 1-32
□ Dennis Overbye, “Reaching for the Stars When Space Was a Thrill,” New York Times (March 2010)

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online lab session assignment
Online assignment #11: Science Fact, Science Fiction, and the Future

Worksheet due 11.13 in class using the sources below.

□ Choose either Chapter 2 "Age of the Aeronaut" or Chapter 4 "The Body Electric" or Chapter 5 "The Rise of the Machines" from Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction 1780-1910, Smithsonian Libraries (2017)

□ Choose two of the following decades -- 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s -- from Paleofuture (1870s-1930s)