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Rhetorically Analyzing...

A thought on technology

We've been having presenters for our upcoming paper on technology, so here are some thoughts on their presentations:

* This last group was extremely well-organized. I very much liked how they gave their presentations and split up the time and topics. I admit I had to laughingly gripe a little bit at the "Mac vs. PC" presentation, because I hate Macs, but that's just a personal quirk. I thought the presenters brought up a lot of good points and discussion material.... ie. talking about how new forms of technology (texting, internet, email, social groups) are affecting the way we live and interact with each other (and write english papers, according to N :) ).
*The discussion on intellectual property was interesting too. The group talked about who should have what rights, and whether it's right for companies to endorse certain technologies.
*One guy talked about whether we should "simplify" our technological world and only allow one kind of format (ie. Blu vs. HD DVDs), or whether that promotes monopolies and unfair business/ethical practices. Personally, I'm more of the opinion that I love standardization, but I dislike the idea of technology monopolies (mostly because I work with tech, and so often things don't work in one format that prove more useful in another format in certain situations. I'm all for options.)
*I also liked the way they presented their slides... yes, it had a lot of technical information, but it was done for comparative reasons and you weren't expected to read the whole thing.