SYS 478: Fall 2026

Field Guide

Governance

Tools for asking what should be shaped, limited, redirected, or refused before an emerging technology hardens into infrastructure.

These pages focus on governance as something people do, not just something institutions announce after the fact. Use them when a technology is being proposed, piloted, funded, justified, or normalized and the important question is not only whether it works, but who gets to shape it and what might become difficult to undo later.