session 11

Session 11

Today’s lesson started off with an interesting video about Siemens, which talked about how Siemens identifies and solves the problems around the world. I did a bit of research on Siemens and to my surprise; Siemens is actually involving in my fields of technology ranging from oil to water and even medical instruments. I did some read up on water treatment by Siemens and I realized that Siemens has helped many regions to solve the problem of shortage of clean water. Each case is split according to its geographical location and a detailed report written about how Siemens solve the problems as well as challenges facing.

I want to comment on the video, which made fun or Microsoft advertisement. The point I want to discuss here is that if the technology really needs 400 years to become realistic? Honestly I do not think so. In my opinion, except for the concept phone, the rest of the technology should be able to appear in 10 – 20 years time. The only thing is that these technologies may not be able to become very popular in such a short period of time probably due to price and availability.

But I cannot deny that there is a possibility that such concept phone will become real in a decade’s time. I think for all these technologies, the key challenge is not whether or not we can build this or that but if everyone is able to afford it. I believe the technologies that involve in the concept phone will appear really soon but how long will it take before scientists can transform the technologies into something most of us are able to afford.

I think most of the time when we were discussing in class if this or that technology will appear soon, we often forget to discuss the point that when will this technology become popular. The discovery of electricity was way before the light bulb was invented. What I am trying to say here is that it is useless with the discovery of the technology without putting it into practical use. Hence even though we may be able to achieve many breakthroughs in various fields of technology, majority of the population will not be able to experience the benefits that those breakthroughs have brought.

In conclusion, I think the technologies we saw in the video will possibly become real in 10 years’ time but we need at least 40-50 years to be able to achieve the popularity of those technologies as shown in the video.

Today is the last lesson of the term and I think the atmosphere is really good and class participation is good as well. Today I will give the lesson 9/10.