Week 10

Overview

It’s all about new and emerging technologies!! I like this topic as it does not consists any important definition or any graphical chart. It’s all about innovation and a mind of creativity and vision. The readings were interesting too especially reading four that shows the 10 most important inventions.

We also talked about ways that companies could introduce their new product to the masses so that they will accept it naturally. Now, they depend on the work of advertisement and making people think that they need the product. After all, we did not need computers last time but now, without a computer, you will go nowhere. In my psychology class, I learnt something about priming effect and I think that if companies used that to market their product, it would be easy for the masses to think that it is important. After all, they will have some form of familiarity with the product even though they have never really seen it before. This familiarity makes it easy to connect to people and catch their attention.

Interesting observations

The smart card was pretty interesting in that the card number will disappear after a while which I thought will definitely decrease the chance of people being able to use the smart card if they found it. However, I do not like the idea of combining all the cards even though it was convenient. I mean if I lost a card, I would be glad if I have another so that does not seem as appealing for me!! Moreover, I wonder how much they will charge for a replacement card since it is rather high-tech. I guess the innovation idea came from the hard token which doubles your bank account security when you use internet banking.

Similarly, I think the idea of the paper wand that has the ability to your notes and be read from another platform is something like the idea of the smart card. This means you just need to carry one “paper” and everything will be inside, something like Ipad I think. Well, this seems cool especially if you can use it with the new “nanotechnology” (the video Prof showed us) which will be able to change the shape according to what you want it to be. It seems to me that everything is all about combining and convenience. This scares me a little since I foresee the near future as a world of laziness and diseases. Like the movie wall e, technology moving towards convenience will end up making humans lazy. Exercise in the form of walking to the mrt of bus stop will cease to exist and without exercise, our body will degenerate and new diseases will hit us. After all, man was made with a built for physical activities.

Key Observation

Imagination is the key to new technology. However, imagination alone will not make it a reality. We still need funding and approval from the rest of the existing companies since new convenient technologies means that some companies will have to cease their operations. I guess every change has its sacrifices so we need make certain sacrifices to improve and yield the benefits installed for us.

Rating

7/10