LibGuides: 8 Individuals and Societies: Innovations of the 21st century

21st Century Inventions: Investigation

How does technology impact society?

Choose an invention from the 21st century (From 2000 to present)
What impact has it had on society?
- Consider:
  - Equity (workers, unions, owners, resistance & laws)
  - Perspective (Who benefits? Who is disadvantaged?)
  - Causality (What might the future hold due to this?)

See the articles to spark your thinking. Notice keywords that might expand your search.

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Search Tips:

Identify Key Words: Write out questions, circle necessary words, anticipate words in the answer
Use Booleans to narrow or broaden your search (And, Or, Not)
Use truncation (*) to catch more results (for example: creat* will bring create, creation, creating...)
Use quotation marks to keep exact phrases together ("Florida Marlins")
Use wildcards (?) to catch various spellings or meanings (wom?n brings woman and women)
Use a minus sign to filter out irrelevant results (-fish)
Filter results with "Search Tools" in Google
Search for files and scans using " filetype:pdf" in a search
Limit results by domain, such as .gov .edu .cn
Limit to terms in the title of a site or article with "intitle:"