Brief Overview/ Introduction
This session
marked the end of TWC sessions. It was surprising how rapidly these past 13
weeks flew by. In this session, the remaining four groups, including mine,
presented the websites that they have created for the project.
Interesting Observations & Ideas:
The first group was Jamie’s group,
which presented on the topic of min-controlled prosthetics. It is really
amazing how much prosthetics has evolved over the years, due to technology,
this certainly reminds one the wonderful impacts and benefits continually developing
and improving technology can bring to mankind. I liked how the group mentioned
the need for the sense of touch in current prosthetics, as I had never considered
that disadvantage before. It would be very beneficial indeed, if future
prosthetics come with the ability to feel, so that users can better communicate
and interact with their fellow humans without the need to worry of unintentionally
hurting them. Users would also be able to undertake delicate tasks requiring
soft, controlled and restrained handling, or touch, thus not severely limiting
them in any way.
The second group was Alister’s group
on Transhumanism. Their presentation was a real eye-opener as I had never heard
of the term transhumanism before ahahha. One thing that I really liked about their
website, was the user-friendly and interesting timeline of the development in
non-human body parts. I found the benefits of transhumanism very promising and fascinating,
and especially beneficial to those that are dis-abled. However, for perfectly
abled humans…I can’t seem to accept the idea of their unnecessarily substituting
their perfectly-fine limbs for non-human limbs, despite the multiple
advantages, right now ahahahha. Nevertheless, it was a very thought-provoking
and interesting presentation, and I really liked the design of their website,
it appeared as though they really put in a lot of effort in designing the
layout.
After my group’s presentation on food
for the future, Sylvester’s group was next to present on the definitely
attention-capturing (hoho) topic of sex and advertising. Indeed, the increasing
portrayal of women as object for mere sexual pleasure is troubling, especially with
the potential image that could be portrayed to susceptible young children,
especially since they would be our future generations and the continuation of
the human race. Already there is an alarmingly rapid growth in the numbers of
teen-pregnancy and especially rape. The increasing application of sex ads could
accelerate the growth in those areas even more…especially with the invention of
3-D sex ads. These concerning side-effects have opt be considered really carefully
before companies push out more and more sex ads.
Finally, the last group, Clara’s
group, presented on the topic of virtual reality, mainly focusing on the 2 types
of augmented reality and simulation virtual reality. Although the topic of
virtual reality had been discussed before in one of the previous session, the
group’s presentation was nevertheless still interesting and exciting. I especially
liked the live demonstration the group did, it was very innovative and
attention-grabbing. I also felt that the group did a good job in researching
and investigating the different applications, implication, and potential of
virtual reality.
Session Rating: 9/10
It is really
amazing how time can really fly by, it really feels as though it was only
recently that I attended the first TWC session. Throughout these 13 weeks, I
have undoubtedly gained numerous knowledge and information that will continue
to be useful to both my personal life and future career. Had I not taken TWC, I
would still be in my own little world, unknown to the mind-boggling wonders of
technology, and unable to appreciate its worth.
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