1. Discuss a public figure who has made a difference in your life.

2. Write about how a movie soundtrack added to or detracted from your enjoyment of the movie.

3. How do commercials influence what you personally buy?

4. Are you for/against product placement in programs?

5. Define an effective advertisement and give examples.

6. Compare/contrast the different methods you use to take in daily news.

7. Do you find reality television shows appealing or not?

8. Compare/contrast watching reality shows to watching sports.

9. What would you say are the three most (or just one perhaps) important technological achievements in the 20^th century?

10. Refute any choices in Alan Thein Durning's "The Seven Sustainable Wonders of the World."

11. What would be the three (or perhaps one) most useless, asinine, wasteful, etc., gadets ever invented?

12. Compare/contrast ways that people use to find potential dates.

13. What one invention couldn't you live without?

14. Discuss an invention that has actually caused us to lose some quality of life.

15. Do "time-saving devices" really save time? Discuss.

16. Since Amy Joyce, in "Thoughts, Interrupted . . . " argues that the cell phone takes away time alone with ourselves, what is the best way (or one way) to find time alone with ourselves?

17. Discuss some form of technology that has threatened your privacy (such as Internet cookies).

18. How dependent are you on computers, and does that limit your social interaction?

19. How do you think today's young generation will be affected by growing up with computers?

20. Compare/contrast online shopping to shopping at real stores.