Contemporary and Future Technology – Cultural Dynamics
Technology & Ecology: Friend or Foe? How technology can cause and solve problems
Non-Lethal Weapons – Weapons to control, not to kill
Technology and Children – How technology affects children today
Technology and Agriculture – Farming in the future – No longer 40 acres and a mule
Technology and Politics – How today’s technology makes a difference, or does it?
Technology and Medicine & Healthcare
Nanotechnology
Impact of the World’s Fair – What would a world’s fair on technology now showcase?
Our Inability to Predict Future Technology – Critique predictions you think will happen.
The Internet & Privacy
Genetic Engineering — A wonderful new world or an awful new world?
Technology and Entertainment – What’s next? What are the issues?
Virtual Reality — How can it be used in unique ways to entertain and solve problems?
Augmented reality
Communication Technology – What is next?
Impact of Television — Is the discussion over on the impact of TV on children and our culture?
Impact of the computer in terms of careers, family life, physical health, dating, etc.
Technology and the Finance Industry – How technology will impact upon business.
Transportation Technology – Present and Future
Knowledgework
Technology and Women – How technology affects women today.
The Patent Process – New procedures and how to get a patent.
Famous and Not-So-Famous Inventors – Who are today’s unsung inventors?
Construction Technology: House of the Future – The Smart House
Technology and Crime – How the bad guys use technology
Technology and Crime Control – How the good guys use technology
Cyber Warfare
Technology and Marketing – How we will shop in the future
Technology and the Infrastructure: Then and Now – Water supply, transportation, etc.
The Story of the Railroad – Its future
The Automobile of the Future – How it could affect the economy, daily life & the ecology
The Story of Aviation – Its future
Technology & Education – How technology could affect learning -future schools
Technology and Manufacturing – Manufacturing in the future
Technology and Materialism – How technology tempts us to covet possessions rather than what we wish to become; if I can afford it, I can have it. Work to become, not to acquire
Material Science in the Future – How new materials could affect our lives
A Comprehensive Investigation of New and Future Technology & Cultural Impact
Robotics – Their impact on manufacturing, crime control, daily life, etc.
Global Positioning System — The many ways GPS can serve us.
Information Technology – How to access accurate information (scholarship) & issues of ethics
Technology & Ethics — The issues…morals and temptations caused by technology
Is Technology “Good” or ” Bad”? – Case studies and examples
Other possible general topics:
Artificial Intelligence
Communication
Computing
Development and/or Industrialization in Third World Countries
Digital systems
DNA manipulation
DNA/Genetic screening/testing and engineering
Education
Energy
Genetically Modified Foods
Human Cloning
Human reproduction
Life-prolonging technology
Medicine & Medical Technology
Medicine/Medical treatment
Military weapons and warfare
Pollution and waste disposal
Privacy issues
Space Exploration
Sustainability
Television
The entertainment industry
The Internet
Transportation
Urban Sprawl
Urbanization
Weapons systems and military technology
Women Labor