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Hi, All-

I'm teaching a first-year college course on writing and my next unit is on Science and Technology, leading towards a paper in which students will look at a topic - specifically, how technology affects our brains and the way we think - and examine the way this is dealt with differently in non-fiction as opposed to fiction. (I.e. a genre analysis.)

I'm adapting this lesson from another instructor's unit. She used to teach Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling" as the primary fiction text, but this story is no longer easily accessible and/or available online. So I need some suggestions of stories that address the question of how technology affects the way that people think.

These will preferably be not over-long, jargony, or referential to American culture, as this student group includes a number of ESL and immigrant students and I don't want them getting too bogged down by cultural references and/or terms they don't know.

Thanks in advance!