Essay Explanation
This essay is an argumentative paper to be supported by your research. Once you have chosen
your topic, it will be up to you to narrow down the scope of the research, to choose a
representative example and to develop a topic statement.
Essay Prompt
In “Five Things We Need to Know about Technological Change,” Postman observes, “the advantages and disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the population.” He asks, “Which groups, what type of person, what kind of industry will be favoured…which groups of people will thereby be harmed?”
Write an essay that discusses a dis/advantage of some form of technology/media on humankind.
