Digital technology will continue to change every aspect of human life. The past twenty five years have shown the accelerating rate of disruptive and mostly beneficial effects of “the digital” on business, education, health and medicine, the creative arts, shopping, social interaction, banking, transportation, scientific research, war, politics, and government.

Digital technology makes human beings virtually more connected, safer, and more efficient, but it also makes our embodied lives more dependent on technological systems; more open to surveillance, cognitive manipulation, and control.

This chapter is a prototype for an OER or "open education resource" textbook currently being developed by Will Luers and CMDC students for the course DTC 101 at Washington State University Vancouver. This project is part of the Digital Publishing Initiative at the Creative Media & Digital Culture program.

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