I need some help of smart people. I am working up a concept for an undergraduate course about “Information and Technology”. Here is the current title and description:

TECHNOLOGY, MOVIES, AND CULTURE

This course will look at modern technology through the lens of movies and other popular culture representations of technology. We will look at topics like the Internet, Security, Social Networking, Artificial Intelligence, Economics of Information, Information Visualization, and other topics viewed through a lens of popular culture. While we will use popular culture representations of technology as a starting point, we will dig more deeply and actually understand how these technologies work in reality and example where and why popular culture representations of technology disconnect from the reality of technology. We will also look at the digital and other technologies used to make films and images.

The goal of the course is to actually teach folks about technology but use films and film clips as a way to teach. I have a few films that will be starting points that I like such as: Matrix, A Beautiful Mind, Eagle Eye, iRobot, etc – but I *know* I am only scratching the surface.

I am looking for films (or TV show episodes) that did a *reasonably good* job of representing technology in a way that I could build into a lecture where we actually learned about technology.

Please send me E-Mail with your ideas – or just update this document:

http://doxs.gooxle.com/Dox?docid=0AbX1ycQalUnyZGZ6YjhoeHdfMTZndDlyNnJjdw&hl=en

I changed some letters in the domain name from c to x (twice) and from g to x – so bots have a harder time hacking my doc.
Thanks in advance – and I look forward to your ideas and suggestions.