Sunday, August 4, 2013

3. How did Estonia Become a Leader in Technology?


In this article it is explained why Estonia, a country who declared independence recently in 1991, became one of the world’s greatest leaders in technology. Right after independence the country lacked technology and the only kind of communication device was a phone in the foreign minister’s garden. This lack of techonology made Etonians determinied and focused to make technology better where they lived. In a span of two decades Estonia had made various advancements for example, online voting, paying for parking spaces online and computers in all schools. In the last paragraph the author ends stating about schools and how education is important and how all the kids today want to work with technology.

                The author does a good job in catching the  attention of the reader by saying how recent the declaration of Independence was.  The author starts stating many facts about the country but doesn’t have a clear thesis which makes the article confusing and incomplete. His transitions are not very smooth and it looks like a bunch of information packed together and distributed randomly. Throughout the whole ariticle he had a different topic each time; the title was how it became a leader in technology but the author moves away from that and lists the technologial advancements but not how they got there. Despite all the negative sides the athor still draws attention to the article by the interesting things Estonia has developed and its' everyday life.   His concusion by far is the worst part of the whole article, it seems like he doesn't even have one. He ends his article by talking about schools and not his main point which seemed to be how Estonia became so technological. Overall this should be considered a poorly written article becasue ot it’s lack of thesis and conclusion, even thoug he had all the information he could not put it into one oganized body.

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