Hello all! I'm Will, and this is the first blog post of many which will deal with the relationship between animals and human technology. First thing's first—I need to decide what, specifically, I'll be researching. An obvious choice would be to research and argue for or against animal testing. If I find enough info about a specialized field of animal testing, I may focus on that.

However, there are plenty of other topics related to both animals and technology—not all of them as controversial as animal testing. The domestication of animals for agricultural use, keeping animals as pets, training them to assist humans in detective work or as a guide dog, the study of animal kinematics for scientific use—the list goes on and on.

I did read a few interesting articles on CNN a couple weeks ago about how there is a campaign to rid New York City of horse-drawn carriage rides, with some declaring it animal abuse. There seemed to be a decent amount of coverage on the subject, but is it enough for a research paper? That remains to be seen.

The most important thing for me is that I pick a topic that's interesting to research. I need to be in this class, and I need to write this long paper and these regular blog posts, so I might as well make it fun somehow. I expect to have a concrete topic down within a few days—stay posted.