Session 9- Ideas that will change the world

People just love new technologies. Just take a look at the long queues of the Iphone even before the opening of its stores. Looking at the technologies of the future and attending TWC lesson, I must say that I’m pretty excited for the future. Those who love it will embrace it, and those who embrace it will love it even more. I find that those who hates technology are just suckers, because of their pessimism, they miss out on the good stuff...  Of course these people have a role to play for society, being the devil’s advocate, even group new business group should have one, they give an important perspective. There was a survey conducted by Prof Donaldson form SMU, when he went to China he asked people who live there whether they prefer the present or prefer the past (eg 30 years ago). He whenever he met someone new he would ask that question. The results are interesting, Although knowing that that are many people who are pessimistic, all(except for one) said that they preferred the present. The one who preferred the past had just been hit a land takeover. What we can learn from this: Whether you hate or love change now, you will soon learn to love it.

In today’s lesson, we had 2 special guest, the lawyer and his daughter. Firstly I must say that it seemed like the lawyer’s perspective was challenged and that he did have some important takeaways. For example the difference between a leader and a manager.  Besides the guests, this lesson was important for me because my hard work from doing all the research for the presentation paid off. Besides my presentation, I was excited to come for the lesson because from the first paragraph, you will know that I have learnt to love technology and world change. This lesson apart from slide 8 and the student presentation felt like having a lesson using  the Facebook group.

 The interesting lessons that I really like was when we talked and viewed videos of technology. 2 technologies especially interest me: Augmented reality and flexible plastics. Both have a tremendous area for profit. Augmented reality will be everywhere in the future as a mean of information gathering. Money could be made from skewing information to consumers, companies would likely “advertise” through this means. Flexible plastics when compared to glass might be cheaper, more durable, flexible, safer for children. Thinking of these advantages flexible plastics might just be everywhere in the future, will it shape the manufacturing industry? Certainly.

Quick takeaways from today’s lesson:
-Whatever you can conceive, someone probably can achieve.
-Leaders and mangers have to work together to achieve. Vision and reality have to meet
-Media and advertising can change the peoples’ wants into needs.
-For entrepreneurs, it is good to go for market driven products
-Technology is not improving freaking fast, it’s improving ultra freaking fast
-With each passing innovator, more are inspired to become. E.g. Steve Jobs.
-Perfect woman? Maybe one day technology can help us fulfill our biological needs
-The exams and tests of tomorrow will likely shift far away from knowledge recall

What I hope to see being discussed in the future for technology would be how to find niche markets for students to take advantage of. For example, augmented reality can be programmed, when technology comes out, students can set up programming companies.

I will rate this class a 9/10. It excited me once again about the future technologies and my long research for my presentation finally paid off.