Research paper on technology?

Question

I need a topic that is interesting and easy to understand but also that it has a lot of info.
It has to be something current with possible bad effects as well as solutions.
I have a couple of topics but they are so boring that I fall asleep just thinking about them...ugh

Answer 1

With the current hardware technology about to reach its outer limits of physics will the next revolution be in streamlining software?

I have worked in technology since the ‘60’s. In the 60’s it was not uncommon for a major company to run its payroll programs on machines with as little as 16 kilobytes of main memory. I know that the missions to the moon were calculated on computers with one megabyte of main memory or less. Today we are looking at machines with 4-8 gigabytes of memory and it takes 5-minutes just to boot up a PC. It looks like there is plenty of room to improve operating systems and applications.

Granted today’s computers have slicker user interfaces and are easier to use by the general public, but they have become very inefficient users of software. The object code era has allowed really poor coding to become imbedded in most of today’s applications.

Once the hardware reaches the point where adding processors adds zero throughput won’t it be time to take a look at the sloppy code written over the past twenty-five to thirty years? Isn’t there room for a revolution in software redevelopment?

Answer 2

Technology is a very broad topic itself, narrow it down . . .
Mechanical ? JR Tolkien (author Lord of the Rings) felt that the internal combustion engine was a major cause of mankinds downfall.
Electrical ? Start with Edison and the light bulb then jump to the radio (communication), the Shockley's development of the transistor in the '50s (the real kick off point for computerization)
Chemical and biological ? How about the whole DNA & genentic engineering issues ?

Answer 3

I would suggest, how robotics is going to affect or improve daily life?