Starter topic ideas for research essays

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1. Can today's college students solve world problems?
2. What are the long-term effects of living in a technological world? Are these mostly negative or positive?
3. What is the most important new technology for solving world problems?
4. Does the Internet need controls or censorship? If so, what kind?
5. How has social media helped solve and create problems in our country?
6. Will governments like China continue to be able to control citizens' access to the Internet and social media?
7. How do social media, texting, cell phones, and the Internet make the world bigger? Smaller?
8. What are the implications of ever-increasing globalization through technology for the global economy?
9. Technology is changing so quickly that we are frequently using computers, software programs, and other technologies that have frustrating glitches and problems. Is there a solution?
10. How does our experience of social interactions with other humans influence the way we interact with machines?
11. When does it become morally wrong to genetically engineer your child?
12. What are the new ways people can use technology to change the world?
13. How is digital learning going to change schools and education?
14. Should information technologies and Internet availability make work from home the norm?
15. Do digital tools make us more or less productive at work?
16. To what extent is the development of new technologies having a negative effect?
17. How will technology change our lives in twenty years?
18. Should people get identity chips implanted under their skin?
19. Should people in all countries have equal access to technological developments?
20. Would having cars that drive themselves be a good or bad idea?
21. How are brains different from computers?
22. How might travel in the future be different?