Assignment: Emerging Technologies

Choose an emerging technology and prepare a report describing the technology and its impact on society. Your report should discuss:

The technology, what it does, how it works, and who uses it. The research and development leading up to this technology. Advantages and disadvantages to this technology. Ways in which this technology is altering human behavior, affecting society and the environment, etc. Remember that an emerging technology is one which is now present in society, but remains relatively new. This might include such topics as speech recognition, near field communication, virtual wallets, various social media outlets, strong artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, graphene, quantum computing, solid-state storage, biological computing, cryptography, self-driving vehicles, etc.

Exceed the Expectations: provide primary research to support your points. For example, interview an expert the field and include that expert's comments and opinions.

Format your work according to the computer science writing guide. 500 words.

Use the following rubric to understand the expectations for the assignment, and to prepare your assignment.