Wrong Assigment- Just for Reading

   Rob Mondello
  English 100


                                 Blog#3  Rhetorical Analysis


    In the article I am analyzing Michael Berger discusses a new innovation in the biotechnology field which allows very small sensors to be grafted onto tooth enamel and living tissue. Berger states that the benefits of an infusible nanotechnology outweigh the risks, and that integrating biotechnology in the human body ends up being a service to public health. Berger utilizes imagery, repetition, and allusion to help present his thesis.
    I chose this particular article on graphene nanosensor tattoos on the enamel of your teeth because of the broad implication of this breakthrough. It seems like all the new dangers a technology could introduce are now generally being neutralized by another technology in the works, which also introduces more dangers to be dealt with by another technology in the works, and so on. This is the driving force behind innovation, the need for a solution to a new or pre-existing dilemma. The dilemma in this case is the need for clean food in an age where we are surrounded by mass produced toxins. The fact that everything you intake in your body can be monitored seems like it has a straightforward modus operandi. However this invention has a vast possible range for its real world application.
      
       For instance, if this technology ever becomes commercially available, a giant network could possibly be set up to collect all streaming data packets from the sensors to a database. The information could be collected and utilized illegally by insurance companies to spy on their clients eating/exercise habits, much like corporations buy and sell data collected from social networks now. Law enforcement could monitor drug use in everyone instantaneously, and respond accordingly. The sensors could be used to track someones every move if/when GPS is integrated onto the circuit boards. If this technology was utilized in conjunction with something like the planetary skin institute (see video below), then global carbon monitoring may not be so far away.

    
      I tried to maintain a tone of scientific scrutiny throughout the analysis, although sometimes it may have come across as boring. I had a little trouble amping up the emotions conveyed throughout the piece. Perhaps I could have employed more exciting literary terms and techniques to make things more exciting. The logic I employed was that the reading audience would most likely be of a scientific background, and therefore would appreciate a more straightforward approach. 
     
      Throughout the piece I tried to site examples of the various rhetorical strategies used in the article, and give a mirroring summary of the information contained in each of those strategies. As a result, I feel the analysis I wrote felt very bland, and lacked the attention grabbing ability of the original article I was reviewing. In the future I will try to deviate more from the framework of the article that I am reviewing.


"This is how they find us, by our teeth", Bruce Willis, 12 Monkeys.