Fahad Aldosari

Julia Intawiwat
ENG 112-38
2-28-2015
Is Technology Inevitable?

Step 2 Proposal:
1. What do you know about your subject already?
Before I began doing some research about my subject, I had the wrong idea about
technology. I had always thought, and I am sure I am not the only one, that technology
started with the creation of the first computer. Obviously I was wrong, technology has
been on an evolutionary process for as long as humans have walked the earth.
I am a computer science major; needless to say, I know some basic and not so basic
things about computers and about programming.
2. Why did you choose this subject over others? Why does it interest you?
As a computer science major, learning and advancing technology is one of my main
interests in life.
3. Write ten questions you want to find answers to. At least half of those can be
fact-based. The rest must be substantive.
- How did people communicate in a long distance before the invention of cellphone and
home phones?
- Who and how discovered that you can power things through electric current?
- When was the first power grid built and who designed it?
- When was the first computer built and who built it?
- How does the GPS (Global Position System) works?
- How has the invention of the first computer changed the world?
- How has the advancement of media broadcast has changed the way society
communicates?
- What is the economic impact of technology?
- How has technology helped humans go to space?
- What should humanity expect from technology in days to come?

4. From that list, choose one or two of the substantive questions that interest
you most. These will be your primary inquiry questions as you begin your
research.
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What is the economic impact of technology?

How has technology helped humans go to space?

5. List, where do you think you will find answers you seek? Possibilities are
articles from popular journals or web sites, scholarly research or studies,
government documents, individuals who might be good subjects for
interview. What questions might be difficult to find answers for?
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Nasa.gov
Telcomhistory.org
Si.edu
CPCC library database
Interview to Enrique Vega (Software Engineer for Varonis, Manhattan, NY.)
The question about what to expect in the future is very difficult to answer,
specially since the answers are countless

6. If the results of your initial research are so numerous you need to narrow
your subject, what will you narrow it to?
- How has the invention of the first computer changed the world and what should we
expect from computers in the future?
7. If your preliminary research turns up very little information, in what way
will you broaden your subject to open up more research findings?
- Talk more about investigating and researching space from a technological
perspective.