The struggle to decide what to write about was an annoying one. At first I thought of writing about the VR as a paradox, but the only VR paradox research I could find was separate to eachother. There was research about VR, there was research about plenty of paradoxs, but not both together.
I then thought about a few different topics, seeing if I could construct any reasonable outline of a plan to write about them, but that didn’t go well. I didn’t want to write about any of the suggested topics under Social Justice because I felt I would get really annoyed, and didn’t feel like I could get my opinion across without sounding angry. But then I remembered my annoyance about the Google Maps lecture and realised I could actually write about that. So I chose the topic of “Analyzing a Computer Algorithm and its relationship with our contemporary society”.
I already knew about the algorithms used in Google Maps from learning it in A Level Computer Science years ago; I just needed to find resources and specific details to explain them. My essay has ended up being titled “The Google Maps Algorithm and its Relationship with our Contemporary Society”. I used the following references in my paper:
Some not as credible as others, but I used my own knowledge to decide if the sources were accurate or not. I did find two research papers on Google Maps and its algorithms, but I didn’t end up using those.
So far I haven’t lost any work, and I have saved the essay in multiple locations, so hopefully I don’t lose this thing tonight and have to do another last minute redo of the essay like last year.