Enduring Issues Essay Setup

Suggested issue: Impact of technology

Sample document set: (1) description of the internet's emergence, (2) account of how mobile phones transformed developing economies, (3) climate change description, (4) AI emergence, (5) potential later document on continuing technological change

Thesis template: "The impact of technology is an enduring issue because throughout history new technologies have transformed economies, societies, politics, and the natural environment. The digital revolution of recent decades, including the internet, mobile telephony, and most recently artificial intelligence, has produced changes comparable to the original Industrial Revolution. These technologies have enabled unprecedented connection across borders, lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, but have also produced new forms of inequality, environmental damage, and social disruption."

Extemp parallel: Maria should approach this as a three-minute extemp on "How is globalization changing in the 2020s?" Body points on economic globalization and its discontents, technological transformation and AI, climate change as the long-term challenge. Close with what the next decade might hold.