SESSION ELEVEN

This week is the presentation week and class ended early J I thought everybody did really well! Especially to come up with all the professional looking websites J

The first group presented on Eco-technology, and I thought that their website was very well done and was one of the most professional looking sites. We all know by now that the Earth’s resources are depleting rapidly, therefore, introduction of eco-technology into the world is very important. There were a lot of interesting things they presented, and one of which was the Findhorn eco village. Although this village is home to only 500 people, I am sure in time to come, the world will be able to live sustainably. “Necessity is the mother of invention” by Ester Boserup. Like her, I am also positive when human are at their critical stage, which is now, where almost all our resources are used up, we will be able to invent and live sustainably. Thus, we will be able to implement the concept of eco-friendly everywhere in years to come.

The next presentation was on food for the future. The website is very informative and simple J We have about 1 billion people in the world today who are deprived of food. Therefore, technology will be able to alleviate this issue and hopefully able to “feed the world” as stated on their website. One interesting future consideration that they brought was about smart packaging. If nanobots can be incorporated into foods, people are able to be more aware of the food that they are consuming as the exact nutritional content of the food will be known. Also, if the nanobots are able to break down the package into its constituent package, it will enable us to recycle the entire package. Another interesting and cool future consideration is the bubble gum meals where our daily nutritional requirements attained through eating a bubble gum.

The next presentation was about the technology and photography. A picture paints a thousand words and technology will be able to help attain the best picture. The website they created was very comprehensive but I thought that the effects on the tabs were very distracting.

In all, today’s presentations were very informative. I enjoyed them and would rate the lesson 9/10.