====== Presentation of Essay 1, Understanding the Technical World====== Your assignment is to choose a recent (max 1 year old) news story in a popular national or international news source concerning novel technology. You have to read the news article and prepare an analytical in-class presentation that you will give. The presentation should focus on: - summarise the article (±5 minutes) - evaluate the news story from technical, rhetorical and sociological points of view (±5 minutes) - include the merit and shortcomings the story has and the possible impact the topic in the article have on society (±5 minutes) - You should close your presentation with an outlook into the future and with the ideation of new use-cases for this technology. (±5 minutes) The overall presentation (±20 minutes) should be followed by q&a and discussion (±10 minutes) that the presenter will moderate. ===== Presentation Dates ===== **SUN, 10-01-17** | Student 1 | Raitis | White Roadways as a Tool to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect | | Student 2 | Vitoria | Neural Bypass | **SUN, 10-08-17** | Student 3 | Kristopher | A Future with LIGO | | Student 4 | Grace | An Evaluation of SpaceVR’s VR Enabled Robots | | Student 5 | Al Reem | Solar Filter | **SUN, 10-15-17** | Student 6 | Alemayehu | CubeSats: Tiny Payloads, Huge Benefits for Space Research | **SUN, 10-22-17** | Student 7 | Junior | Fish me if you can | | Student 8 | Barkin | Analyzing the Implantation of Microchips into Workers' Bodies | | Student 9 | Fathur | Here One: Here, You Listen |