9th Lesson

This week's lesson was definitely interesting on future and emerging technologies and we did not have to narrow our focus on a specific topic for discussion. Basically, anything under the sun about wildcard innovations.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." by Albert Einstein. Among the other quotes that were shared in class, I liked this one best. During one of the earlier TWC sessions, I recalled Prof talking about the concept of singularity, which is how information is being generated at close to an infinite rate. Knowledge is power. However, the need to constantly keep abreast of the latest breakthroughs becomes seemingly impossible with the vast amounts of information circulated easily through the Internet at every minute. In my opinion, I agree with this quote because if you look at the innovations now, it would have took alot of imagination by the inventors to be able to create such products. Hence, you will first need imagination then the knowledge to convert ideas into reality.

In one of the slides, the next upcoming interesting technology that will be most talked about among people will be Artificial Intelligence. Take for example, the Siri software in iPhone 4S. I think this topic will be the next thing that people will start integrating into their daily lives. One of the videos I found interesting was the one on plastic electronics. Though the use of material is appealing because of its weight and flexibility to be made into products, it leads to another consideration of environmental issue since plastic is non-biodegradable. Perhaps, the use of material can be further explored and be substituted  with something that is more environmental-friendly. 

For the individual presentations, I actually thought the idea about 3D cell printing to be the most interesting. This idea is definitely fresh and imagine the benefits that it can bring to the medical arena to cure patients. 

With all these new ideas, I see a bright and promising future for mankind!

Overall, 7.5/10 for this lesson!