Technology is often described as a set of tools - things we use to make life easier, faster, or more efficient. Yet technology is also something that shapes us in return: it influences how we see, how we think, and how we exist in the world.

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This course begins from a simple question: What is technology? Not the devices in our pockets, but the impulse to build, to systematise, to extend ourselves into the world. We’ll explore how this impulse has always been part of human life - how to make, to measure, to construct is also to imagine and to define what it means to be human.

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From there, we turn to the question of responsibility. How should we live with our own creations? Can we design without domination, innovate without erasure, and use technology in ways that sustain rather than exhaust the world that holds us?

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To ask these questions, we need to understand the raw material of our time: information. It is the substance that now organizes how we act and think - it keeps systems stable, but also governs them. To understand technology today is to see how information quietly shapes the patterns of our lives, from the smallest habit to the largest collective decisions.

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We will also ask what still separates the artificial from the natural, and whether that distinction can hold. Every living thing grows by adapting to its surroundings; every technical thing evolves in a similar way, through adjustments and relations that make it more coherent and self-sustaining. The artificial, in this sense, is not opposed to nature but part of its ongoing process - the world inventing itself in new forms.

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To think in the age of AI, we need to learn to see technology not as an external force to fear or worship, but as part of ourselves: the outside that holds our memories, paces our days, and teaches us new habits.