There is, however, an idea that Prof threw out in the beginning of the session that catch my attention. "When we use technology, who we are is extended". When we play badminton for instance, the racket is considered to be our 'part of body'. When we do Kendo, our wooden sword is our extension of our hand. Or when we play football, there are times we the ball become our extension of our foot. Then, what is it to be human? To be human is to be a person, I believe, with every technology attached. Be it a racket, ball, or even people with artificial limbs, I believe that our identities as human are not yet lost. We are who we are!
Okay. Another intriguing question. Have we captured the full potential of ICT? This is a quite ironic question. Take the millennium goals for instance. There are many things that we can do with ICT! Imagine the possibilities we can do with ICT : we can apply online health monitoring, for example, to people in Africa or we can use ICT to apply e-learning to people who are not able to go to school. However, UN, until now, haven't tried hard enough to make us of this ICT to its maximal potential. We can say that UN only barely skin the surface. I think instead of donating some money or giving food, UN can instead allocate the resources it has to do a further research on ICT focusing on helping those people in need.
The presentation of one of my peer that made my day is actually the first one. I just realized how important TV to me. I can't imagine a whole week without watching my TV. The thing is, how will TV be in the future. Will it be as cool as it is depicted? I am quite positive about it! Just as the new Sony TV innovation, the 360 degrees screen, we can see that the sky is the limit for this TV related technology!
Future possible discussion :
Is ICT a double-edged sword? If yes, what is the worst case scenario if it strikes us back?
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