Meta Narrative

Following last weeks review I have been further developing the idea of incorporating a meta or grand narrative into my piece. A meta narrative is defined as 'a master story, a plot that governs all other plots, an archetypal plot referred to by "lesser" specifically situated narratives.' The 'lesser' in mycase being the advance of technology. So what's my Grand Narrative going to be???
I began to think of other processes of change which move in stages. The first idea that came to mind was the progression of cancer throght the body. This is an unfortunately well known progression for many of us who have been affected by it in some way so I want to be careful in how I portray/use it.

The 5 stages of cancer (according to Wikipedia) are as follows:

• Stage 0 carcinoma in situ. (dormant)
  
• Stage I cancers are localized to one part of the body.
• Stage II cancers are locally advanced.
• Stage III cancers are also locally advanced. Whether a cancer is designated as Stage II or Stage III can depend on the specific type of cancer; for example, in Hodgkin's Disease, Stage II indicates affected lymph nodes on only one side of the diaphragm, whereas Stage III indicates affected lymph nodes above and below the diaphragm. The specific criteria for Stages II and III therefore differ according to diagnosis.
• Stage IV cancers have often metastasized, or spread to other organs or throughout the body.

Drawing tenable links between cancer and the spread of technology isn't the most abstract of tasks. However I was surprised to see that evena quick search online didn't find anything along these lines. This is certainly seomthing that is worth looking into a little bit morea s a possible meta narrative for my piece. As I said before though, I want to be careful in how I deal with such a personal topic. Cancer is not come abstract and distant disease for most of us as it affects 1 in every 3 people.