In the Beginning

Week 1 - September 2 - About the Class - Early Writing, Pictography

Week 2 - September 9 - The Renaissance, Moveable Type

Industrial Age

Week 3 - September 16 - Industrial Revolution, Lovelace & Babbage, Manifestos (the isms)

Week 4 - September 23 - World Wars, The Memex

Silicon Age

Week 5 - September 30 - Mid-Century Designers, Designing For People

Week 6 - October 7 - The Mother of All Demos, Early computing and genesis of GUIs

Week 7 - October 14 - Xerox Parc, Expansion of computer technology, Visioning

Computer Age

Week 8 - October 21 - Christopher Alexander, Muriel Cooper, Architecting Space

Week 9 - October 28 - Early personal computers, Early computer games

Week 10 - November 4 - The Internet, The Browser, Early Communities (The Well, BBSes, Usenet)

Week 11 - November 11 - AOL the first internet giant - Girl Games - Brenda Laurel

Information Age

Week 12 - November 18 - Information Architecture, Richard Saul Wurman, The Polar Bear Book

Week 13 - November 25 - The dot com boom and bust, rise of e-commerce & social platforms, accessible to universal

Week 14 - December 2 - voice, design systems, mobile and IoT