How about this? What impact has gps had on people's ability to find addresses or other places? What impact has the address book in our cellphones had on our memory of numbers? Before cell phones, I used to remember many more telephone numbers.
How have new technologies impacted giving and relief? With the Haiti earthquake, you can text a number that will automatically make a donation to the Red Cross.
With all of this, are people more connected to each other, more sympathetic and closer together, or are the devices and so called advances having another effect on who we are?
Do you have questions or ideas about the impact of technology? Have you ever been lost because you used Mapquest and it sent you the wrong way? Do you think people have less knowledge of directions because of such locational devices?
Is there too much information now? What does information overload do to the human mind and to social relations?
Do you use Skype? Has it brought families closer?
The role of computers in movies: there's often a villain now who is a thinking computer...think about Terminator or the Matrix. On that same note, look at how different Star Wars is from current CGI films.
How has DNA changed criminology?
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