the book and the societal/moral issues in the book. The movies of course just were about the monster but the book was much deeper.
The title of the course was "Frankenstein Revisited ". It was team taught by Professor Newtol Press, who was a wonderful anthropology professor, and Professor Kathleen Woodward a marvelous professor in literature. The course dealt with the sub-title of the book as it related to how Shelley presented the tale of Prometheus alongside the story of the monster and the implications about society having knowledge to "create" something or a set of circumstances but lacking the wisdom to recognize that just because you can do a thing does not mean you should because of ramifications you cannot control.
It was an elective course for interdisciplinary studies and so it was well suited to science, technology and engineering students. Unfortunately a great many of the lessons that our IS courses tried to teach people were treated by many as just "filler" when in fact those various courses about being cognizant of questions in application that can be enlightened by exposure to other fields of education were some of the most important.
So now here we are with the "tech monster" we have created and unleashed and we now we literally have people advocating turning our lives over to AI etc. If you go into a conversation today with many of the people bustling about with their phones constantly out and checking them or talking away just ask them "Can you tell me the last time you sat your phone down and just went outside and spent some time watching the clouds going by and the wind going through the trees?" You will likely hear "I don't have time for that" or something of that sort. It will never dawn on most of them that the reason they don't do those things is because what they're holding in their hand they have allowed to coerce them into a way of life now that has them spending a large amount of time "reacting" to this tech assisted/created life. Responding to the monster rather than fully maintaining control of your life in a natural way.
It is not all people of course but it is a huge portion of people. Tons of streaming, hours of internet surfing and to what end really? Are they happier? Are they relaxed? If the answer is no we can be sure, along with those pushing product sales, that a great number of them will turn to their phones and hunt online for a remedy or product that that is being pushed claiming it will make them happy or relaxed. Like a dog chasing it's tail.
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