IM 450-01 Issues in IM: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs
Spring 2022

Goals & Objectives

A) To learn about and appreciate Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs by answering the following questions:

1) What are Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs?
2) How do Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs work?
3) What are the Career and/or Pro-sumer applications for Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs?
4) What does the future hold for Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs?

B) To critically examine Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, NFTs by answering the following questions (from Neil Postman)

1) What is the problem to which this technology is a solution?
2) Whose problem is it?
3) What new problems might be created by solving the original problem?
4) Which people and what institutions will be most seriously harmed by this new technology?
5) What sort of people and institutions gain special economic and political power from this new technology?
6) What changes in language are being forced by these new technologies?

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