How does the interdisciplinary aspect tie into the way students are using technology?
Because technology undergirds everything in our global society. Even the students who don’t think of themselves as technological, they’re using it all the time. I suppose if I thought hard enough, there might be a major somewhere on campus where there is very little technology but that’s hard for me to even imagine. You go to the theatre department and a lot of their systems run on technology. There’s no way of separating out technology anymore. Technology is part of our culture. You have to acknowledge that it is part of everything we do and then figure out what that means. That’s sort of the interdisciplinary aspect of it. What was your major as an undergraduate student? Theatre and Spanish. There wasn’t much technology at that point. When I did theatre as an undergrad and I worked on, say, the lighting, there were these huge levers we pulled following a script during the play. Now they’ve got computerized systems they program ahead of time. How did your interest in technology develo
