Instructions:
This essay does not require external research (in fact it is not recommended) and is meant to focus exclusively on your response to a specific aspect of a text. Your essay will be a response to one of the following questions. As the idea is that this essay will be a response to a specific text, your essay must be interacting directly with (i.e. providing quoted evidence from and analysis of) a specific text. Note that the goal here isn’t to agree or disagree with a given argument, but rather to engage in a discussion that the argument has created.
—In the Vlahos article, “Alexa, I Need Answers,” there is a suggestion that voice recognition software is not just a new way of searching for information, but a potential drastic change to the way we use the internet and to how the internet itself works. For this question, you are asked to:
i) Give evidence that shows how Vlahos is making this argument (i.e. that voice search is changing the internet as we know it)
ii) Explain whether or not you find Vlahos’ argument convincing. Again, this is not meant to be opinion-based, but rather an examination of the evidence presented. For both i) and ii) here you will need to provide direct evidence from the text to support your analysis.
