The topic for this week lesson is about emerging and future technologies. I must say that this week’s lesson is very cool and interesting. It is also very exciting when we are discussing what kind of technologies that we will have in the future. We were talking and thinking of technologies that most of us would not have dream of having. I believe that these will be achievable one day since the technology keeps on advancing.
We started off the lesson with a quote by George Bernard Shaw which says “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”. I think that this is the right attitude towards the innovation of future and more advanced technologies. If only if they are people who believe that all these technologies; which seem unachievable, will be achievable, then all these technologies will be created as they will be the ones who have the fighting sprit to achieve the impossible. We also watched a video entitled “Claytronics”. This video shows an abstract future concept that will benefit many companies such as companies that sells children toys where the figures are taking on astonishingly lifelike forms. This video shows a technology that claytronic atoms can be molded into any shape and allows people to create a 3D figure.
We then discussed on another quote by Albert Einstein which says “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.” Well, I think this is true because it you limit yourselves to what you know, you will in a way be restricting yourselves to a particular set of technologies; no new and more innovative technologies will be invented since there in no imagination. One has to remember that if they can imagine it, they will be able to make it happen!
It is important to have the 4 smarts in order to attain the emerging future technologies. They are smart people, smart ideas, smart money and smart alliance and partnerships. These are the types of people that is required to come together to come out of an idea and translates into the creating of a product. Our professor had mentioned about the difference between the roles between people from the sales and marketing department which I think that it’s so true. He said that people from the sales department are responsible for pushing the products whereby people from marketing department is pulling customers. Marketing people are the ones who will attract people to come forward to ask do you have the products it.
Another quote by Kahlil Gibran which says “There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.” This is trying to say that if one never push hard to get what he wants, then only he will be able to achieve it. Steve Jobs also quoted that “Innovation distinguishes the leader from the follower.” This is true because usually they leader will be the one who shape the things that they believes and shapes and operates out of the box; they are the ones who has all the ideas and belief and first mover.
There are 5 presenters who presented this week and all were very interesting. The presentation that catches my attention the most is the one on robots. I think that in order for humans to fall in love with robots, they must have feelings. But since the technology is advancing so rapidly, it is soon that robots will be programmed to have feelings. Hence, I believe that one day, humans will start falling in love with robots!
Overall, I think that in the future, there will be more impossible being created. We will be able to see cooler inventions being created and this will definitely change the way we live and do things.
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