Paragraph Writing

Promoting Future Technologies

Problem: People are often overwhelmed by the relentless march of technology. Accessibility of

information is changing the way we work, play, and interact with our friends, family and coworkers. In

this time we consider the future and reflect on how the advent of new technologies will affect our daily

lives 10 years in the future.

Task: You have just returned from a trip in a time machine 10 years into the future. Amazing changes

have taken place in just a short time. To a large extent, consumer acceptance of technology makes or

breaks a new technology. Your mission is to develop a creative approach to promote the technological

changes you observed in the future and accelerate their acceptance.

Process: Use the Internet to research up-and- coming technologies (www.howstuffworks.com is a good

starting point). Prepare a list of innovations related to this course that you believe will occur in the next

10 years. Determine how they will be integrated into society and the effect they will have on our

culture.

Prepare your findings in a paragraph format.

Write a paper in your own words detailing how you would promote the technological changes that you

envision for the future as they relate to this course. Also note some barriers for acceptance the

technology may have to overcome, as well as any legal or ethical challenges or questions you see the

new technologies posing.

Conclusion:

The future path of technology is determined by dreamers. If not for innovators such as Edison, Bell, and

Einstein, we would not be as advanced a society as we are today. Innovators come from all walks of life,

and out creative energies must be exercised to keep them in tune. Don’t be afraid to suggest

technological advancements that seem outrageous today. In 1966, when the original Star Trek series

was on television, handheld communicators seemed astounding and beyond our reach. Yet the

dreamers who created those communication devices for a science fiction series spawned a multibillion-

dollar cell phone industry in the 21st century. The next technological wave may be started in your

imagination!

Submit in a Word document:

Use the assignment link in E-campus to submit your findings, attaching a word processing document to

your submission.