Task:
‘Personal Technology Philosophy' requires you to write a short but powerful article on technology - about the evolving relationship between technology and humans - a relationship which defines our history, our present and our future.
You are being asked to articulate and present your opinion and standpoint here - whatever that may be. In doing so encouraged to validate and value your own experience against the philosophy, theory, practice and applications of technology in our lives.
You are being encouraged to test your opinion and to make yourself heard.The only restriction is that it be somehow focused on TECHNOLOGY. Use third person, not first.
And below are just a tiny selection of potential topics and angles ...
- You may wish to express your standpoint on technology using just social media as the focus.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology and its impact on business alone.
- You may wish to express your standpoint on technology focusing on its impact of the self-identity and a sense of self.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology as an inherent component of human evolution.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology using focusing on risk on the trade-off between convenience and privacy.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology as an unstoppable dehumanizing force.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology from the angle that it will lead us toward some technologically driven utopia.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology focusing in on the idea that it has made us smarter - that it has extended our minds.
- You may wish to express your viewpoint on technology from the angle that it will destroy us all go so far as to say that it poses an ‘existential risk' - a risk to our continued existence as a species.
Practical Advice That Will Help
This is a writing task. Set up the context, set up your argument(s), lead me through your argument(s) and support yourself with referenced knowledge the whole way through (intersperse your own learned opinion with previously published information), and hammer home your final point(s) before you type in ‘The End'.