We’re in our week 10 already! It seems school just started but no, this semester is ending soon! All the works are piling up!
Okay.. back to the main topic. Today’s lesson is one of the more interesting ones where we discussed on emerging technologies. The topic for today is emerging and future technologies.
An interesting point from today’s lesson is in this world we need both types of people, a dreamer and a person who applies the knowledge.
The norm when we ask people what type of person they want to be and the most probable reply would be they want to be the dreamer – innovator. However, we need both types of people in our world. We can’t apply the innovation without someone with knowledge. There is no innovation if we don’t have dreamers. So both must co-exist in order for the world to progress.
Following the quote 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.”
It is true that imagination or innovation is more important than knowledge. Anybody who is innovative would be a rising stars. On the other hand, a person not as innovative but is knowledgeable might not be deemed to be a falling star. Application of knowledge is important as well. First, different people have different amount of knowledge. Second, different people have different ability or potential to apply the amount of knowledge they have. Hence, the more knowledge and the better a person can apply the knowledge, they more probable they are deemed to be a rising star.
We also talked about some new and emerging technologies.
An example is robotics. An interesting point is that Japan’s is one of the most developed countries in the world yet the population of Japan is decreasing. The problem they are facing is that there might not be enough people for all the jobs in Japan. The solution they came up with is by introducing robots to take over some of the mindless jobs. One of it is the diverting of traffics using robots. This although is a good solution causes tension to arise as other countries might be unhappy that they do not open up their market to foreign countries (talents).
This coupled with artificial intelligence system has a dark side to it where people may use robots to harm human beings. U.S. is already developing droids as weapons and looking into the future, if people continue to develop in this area, it may be devastating.
Today lessons comprise of quite a number of short videos and all of them are pretty interesting. One video about an emerging technology that I’m pretty interested in is plastic taking over most of the materials like silicon. The plastic produced can be used in many areas like a plastic electronic notebook where it is flexible and breaks less easily compared to glasses. The plastic can be used for many things such as maybe spectacles, the screen for laptops or notebooks or televisions, or maybe even in racket sports taking over silicon rackets and replacing with equally strong but lighter plastic rackets.
Overall, this lesson is pretty interesting as there are many interesting ideas of emerging technologies. It would be exciting to see many new technologies take place over the next few decades and truly, we are only limited by our imaginations. I rate this lesson 9/10 for an interesting lesson. J
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