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+====== 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  |