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This semester’s MSH Introductory Course, "Wired Worlds: Computation, Medicine, and Humanities," combines STS, media theory, and fiction to ask: How does the 'net' structure (or fracture) connections between bodies, institutions, and even planets? Engaging with speculative fiction—such as Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days and Alexander Bogdanov’s Red Star (a socialist utopian vision of Mars)—alongside foundational and contemporary network studies, the course investigates how material and imagined networks structure labor, embodiment, and care. Students will critically analyze the intersection of fiction with historical and contemporary debates on automation, surveillance, and medical governance, asking: Who designs these systems? Who maintains them—and how? Who is excluded?"