Your rough draft should reflect the progress you have made in completing each milestone related to the course project in the earlier weeks.
The primary focus of this assignment is for the student to research and assess the issues associated with a specific emerging technology.
It requires that students submit an APA-formatted, 10-page paper during Week 7 of the session.
The paper must be well researched and utilize scholarly resources.
The final product should include the following components.
A title page, including the student's name and DSI number
An abstract
A table of contents
An introduction, including a clearly defined thesis statement (roughly one page)
An historical timeline that diagrams at least three predecessors to the emergent technology that includes a written assessment on how these technologies influenced the development of the current technology (roughly two pages)
Please note that the timeline should be a horizontal visual component at the beginning of the section, and the written assessment should take up a majority of the two pages.
An analysis of the technology's influence on society considering all of the following components (roughly four pages)
Social
Cultural
Political
Economic
Environmental
An evaluation of the ethical considerations associated with the technology in relation to its impact on humanity (roughly two pages)
Concluding remarks that include predictions for the future of humanity given the technology's emergence (roughly one page)
In-text citations and a reference section in APA format
Appropriate statistical graphs or visual aids to support the paper