Assignment: Essay 1

Choose a recent (max 1 year old) news story in a popular national or international news source concerning novel technology. Your assignment is to read the news article, and write an Essay about it. Later during the semester you will give an analytical in-class presentation about your article.

Essay and presentation should contain:

1. summary of the article
2. evaluation of the news story from technical, rhetorical and sociological points of view. Please include the merit and shortcomings the story has and the possible impact the topic in the article have on society. You should close your essay with an outlook into the future: will the technology described help the world to become a better place? What will the technology lead us to? etc…
3. ideation of new use-cases for this certain technology

Attachment: text document (max of 1200 -1500 words) named according to the following template: essay1_YourFirstName_YourLastName.doc and containing a Header with your complete Name, and Student number

The essay should have the format defined by the Modern Language Association described under the following link: http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/format.htm