My Presentation

I think I now have enough research to start planning my presentation. I want to do it in two sections: the developed countries and the developing countries. Within these two sections I will have subsections that cover economy, the environment, and technology. I will discuss how these three components will either change or not change in the near future. After this, I will discuss the difference between the two types of countries. I will try to figure out whether the gap between the two categories has increased or decreased. The point that I will focus on the most is technology. This is because I believe that this will be developed the most and will also affect the other components of life the most. It will also be the deciding factor of the difference of developed and developing countries. Though I want to have key messages in my presentation, I will also have facts that will make my presentation interesting. Now that I know what I want to do for my presentation, this week I hope to start creating a PowerPoint or some kind of presentation to make my findings more clear.

technology continued

This week I decided to just look up how technology will change the world in fifty years. I must say, people are very ambitious. I read on many websites that technology would bring a drastic change almost every aspect of our lives. This includes transportation, communication, energy use, and food production. Many believe that solar energy will be the major method of energy in less than fifty years. One website (http://www.businessinsider.com/10-ways-technology-will-change-the-world-by-2025-2014-6) lists out all of the future technological innovations by 2025. It was interesting to see what another person meant by technology. While I was focusing on computer/engineering related changes, this author also explored how technology would affect medicine an economy. For example, one of changes listed that technology would cause was the prevention of type one diabetes. Borison claimed that “A human genome engineering platform will make it possible to modify disease-carrying genes and prevent conditions like Type I Diabetes.” However, it seems that not all technological change will be good. Some sites indicate that more technology use creates more energy consumption, which is bad for the environment and bad for the economy. I feel that I need to spend more time to fully understand the world’s future in technology, so I hope to look further into it before I start to make conclusions and decide how to present my research.

Technology in Fifty Years

This week I researched the technological advances in developed and developing countries. From what I found from both this and last week, I now believe that this world is rapidly experiencing globalization. This means that the people in the world are communicating, sharing knowledge, and becoming less ignorant. For example, English is known as the global language, and it has become almost necessary to learn it. Nations as well as people can connect and communicate with others very clearly and quickly. Furthermore, technology is increasing the speed of globalization. Phones are used almost all around the world, from developing countries like Senegal (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-larry-hollon/developing-world-technology_b_3764553.html) to prospering countries like UAE. New technology will also affect other proponents of people’s daily lives, including the economy and the environment. Throughout the 20% time, I have researched how this world will change environmentally and economically. However, the world will not change technologically; but rather technology will change the world. New technology can help decrease pollution, increase health, eradicate disease, and create demand for newer products. One product that technology has altered to help many is the straw. In developed countries, people are using steel straws to reduce the plastic pollution. Plastic is really just processed oil, and takes a very long time to decompose. However, people living with poverty do not care about the health and pollution of the world. Instead, they care about the polluted nutrients they have to consume because they have no other choice. Technological innovations made to help them are the smaller and easier-to-use pollution measurement devices. Before drinking water, people can check to see if the water is safe to consume.

Next week I hope to find more information in how technology will change the future and start to tie all my research to make conclusions about how Earth will be in fifty years.