1. How do holographs work? 2. What is Artificial Intelligence? How does it work? Can computers think like human beings?

3. How do prostheses or artificial limbs work?

4. What are the effects of steroid use? 5. If young adults from the future only had American movies of the 1990s to understand adult behavior, what would society be like? What kinds of behaviors would they assume are normal?

Discuss several titles and the ways in which they portray adults.

6. How do weather patterns work? What technology would we need in order to create storms or fog as the overlords are able to do in the novel?

7. Research the history of orphanages and/or changing social policy regarding children whose parents have died or who have been abandoned.

8. What is the history of the technology of spying?

9. How has technology affected human relationships in today's society...