Story Research...

On 9/13/2007 I was able to talk with a couple of students from American River College. I asked them each what they considered to be some of the more important gadgets to have while in school. Both of them placed their computers at the top of the list. Neither of them mentioned their cell phones as a necessity.
A website I visited was http://reviews.cnet.com. Here they made a list of the top 10 gadget must haves. Here http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/raskin/11631 they explain what technology students don't need. I visited the technology section at www.washingtonpost.com, but nothing really sparked my interest or closely related to what I was researching.
I'm still trying to find an angle to this story because as a student it's obvious what technology I need or don't need. If I am to write on how technology has transitioned then should I compare and contrast specific objects. For example, we now have the iPod Nanos, but before we had cassette players (Walkmans). Maybe I could get into how the cassette tape would unwind in the player and how it would take at least ten minutes to wind the tape back in by turning a pen in one of the two little holes.
Another angle that came to me was about common courtesy with technology. I work as a front office agent at a hotel and this guest came up, set his items on the desk, but didn't say a word to me until his conversation was over. Other guests would normally apologize.
On September 14 I have plans on talking with more people. The next set of interviews will be in regards to the other angles I came up with. Maybe they shared some of the same experiences with the tape cassette or quite possibly other obsolete gadgets.
By the way has anyone ever stopped to think about what would happen if we woke up one day and we were unable to connect to the Internet or have access to technology? I know this sounds like a really silly question, and it may not have a lot to do with my article, but a few times at the hotel I work for we had lost power and were forced to result to manual work. Normally it would take about 3 minutes to check one person in, but in these particular and unfortunate times it would take at least 6-10 minutes. It still may not seem like a lot, but I always felt really bad for the last person in line.