Week 10/Session 9--Future Technologies
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?'
But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
- George Bernard Shaw -
This week’s lesson revolved around emerging and future technologies. We have touched on some drivers of emerging and future technologies, and almost all sessions are releated to this week's session. World is changing, hence technology also need to change in order to fit the world. Therefore, people dream things that never were, after that new technologies come.
One interestling point is form video Plastic Electronics, one example is for taking medicine, there is an electronic label on the bottle telling you when to take the medicine. Another example is from individual presentation, one of them mentioned about the google glasses, which is the idea that he Internet and computers will be accessible anywhere at any time without having to use one's hand. I find that all tese new and future technologies can make our life easier and more convenient. Prof points about the idea of which one is more smart, technology or human. This is the second to discuss this question. My answer is still humans. Minority of people did a lot of research and work and come out the technology, hence human is more smart. And what can change the world is not technology, is humans.
Another interesting point mentioned would be the unment market opportunities and need. This seems to be concerned with technology that is demand / market driven. Considering the fact that especially in today’s world where people tend to be more demanding in the things they require for their everyday lives. The increasing demand and increasing knowledge of human potential hence results in many unmet needs in humans. I feel that these kind of technologies play such an interesting role in making people realise what they could possibly want. It introduces us to new ideas that we would possibly have never ever thought about. This thus refers to the case of technology-driven inventions, where technology helps the masses realise things that people might not have imagined man to be capable of.
One of the key take away messages is a quotation from Albert Einstein,“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” This means that dreamer is more powerful than a academic person if greamer can translate dreams to reality, otherwise you are only a dreamer.
Another important message I find is from a product in the future--women robots. A Japanese robotics website claims to have developed the "Perfect Woman" with the ability to satisfy every domestic need. This product make me think about the trend of today's world. Products make our life easier and make us even more lazy. Everything is technology, if people living in a non-technology place, they cannot survive for sure. Hence, in my opinion, besides having a knowledge of new technologies, people also need to have basis skills to confront some problems by themselves. People cannot over relied on technologies.
Another interesting point mentioned would be the unment market opportunities and need. This seems to be concerned with technology that is demand / market driven. Considering the fact that especially in today’s world where people tend to be more demanding in the things they require for their everyday lives. The increasing demand and increasing knowledge of human potential hence results in many unmet needs in humans. I feel that these kind of technologies play such an interesting role in making people realise what they could possibly want. It introduces us to new ideas that we would possibly have never ever thought about. This thus refers to the case of technology-driven inventions, where technology helps the masses realise things that people might not have imagined man to be capable of.
One of the key take away messages is a quotation from Albert Einstein,“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” This means that dreamer is more powerful than a academic person if greamer can translate dreams to reality, otherwise you are only a dreamer.
Another key take away message is the confluence of 4 smarts that was mentioned in class. Smart People, Smart Ideas, Smart Money & Smart partnership. These 4 are all integral factors in change. Smart people are generally people who are willing and more able to think out of the box and innovate. With this, smart ideas will be able to better come into place as people become more imaginative as they become smarter. Then use money to the correct ideea and make the money meanful. Lastly,there are often more than a single party involved in technological innovations, especially the most complex ones. In this case, partnerships will have to be forged with like-minded people to propel these projects. Thus, in my opinion, while these ’4 smarts’ can refer to 4 different aspects, they can also interact with and be linked with each other.
Another important message I find is from a product in the future--women robots. A Japanese robotics website claims to have developed the "Perfect Woman" with the ability to satisfy every domestic need. This product make me think about the trend of today's world. Products make our life easier and make us even more lazy. Everything is technology, if people living in a non-technology place, they cannot survive for sure. Hence, in my opinion, besides having a knowledge of new technologies, people also need to have basis skills to confront some problems by themselves. People cannot over relied on technologies.
What I hope we discussed more: I think it would have been nice if we discussed more on if we suddenly lose all our advanced technolgy, what will people do? And as we know new technology usually be very expensive, and if we do not have these technologies, our life will not be influenced. Hence, why we still need and invent new technologies.
Overall, I will give 8.5/10 for this week's session.
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