Sunday, July 12, 2015

ISU Presentation - Technology’s positive impact on humans.

By : Vishwa, Rushi, Hrutvik Patel

 OUR TOPIC
Technology’s positive impact on humans.
THESIS


Over the years there has been an exponential change in technology where the transportation, healthcare and education industries have advanced, resulting in a positive impact on our lives.


OUTLINE
Technology’s impact on Transportation
  • Safe
    • Safety concerns have increased and ultimately have evolved over the years.
      • Companies such as BMW have made smart cars, which allows them to brake automatically once you take your feet off the accelerator.
  • Efficient
    • A bus in the UK runs only on cow dung (compressed bio methane). Technology allowed us to experiment with the natural resources in the world.
    • Mostly all transports now have built-in GPS that gives you the fastest route possible with various filters (avoid toll routes, etc..)
    • Instead of waiting for long hours in trains, trains can now go at 300+mph. It’s currently one of the fastest resources to get to a place.
Cheap
    • Owning a car these days is much cheaper. For example, a service named “zipcar’’ allows customers to borrow a car for a day for just $7/month (gas and insurance included).
  • Less Pollutant
    • Kinetic energy powered transports
      • The new system will use the technology to store kinetic energy when the trains brake and use it to power their acceleration as they depart.
    • Nuclear powered transports
      • Fact - The fuel cannot explode. Nuclear fuel has been used for over 40 years resulting in no injuries, fatalities or environmental damage.
    • Hydrogen Fuel Transports
      • By combining hydrogen and oxygen, it powers the motor to run. Converting hydrogen gas into electricity produces only water and heat, meaning fuel cell vehicles don’t pollution when they’re driven. Hydrogen fuel also cuts down 30% emission compared to the gasoline powered motors.
    • Biodiesel Transports
      • Biodiesel is a form of diesel fuel manufactured from vegetable oils, animal fats, or recycled restaurant greases. It is safe, biodegradable, and produces less air pollutants than petroleum-based diesel. Reduces Carbon Dioxide emission by 15%.
Technology’s impact on Healthcare
  • Easier to diagnose diseases and other abnormalities of the body
    • Finding and keeping up-to-date with new diseases spreading
      • Laser technology could possibly detect and cure brain diseases in near future - Research is in on-going process
      • CT (Computed Tomography) is a scan designed to diagnose any diseases or health problems - even cancer.
      • MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is a scan is used to detect any structural abnormalities in the body from injuries or other problems
    • Before, it used to be like lot of people died due to a unknown disease and then came the precautions and cure to the disease.
  • Easy access to medical aid by patients
    • Drones are being enforced in Europe to serve emergency patients better
      • The Drones travel in straight lines and get to the help location within 12 kilometres of range in 1 minute with a medical aid kit operable by any average person under expert consultation.
      • The Drone increases survival of cardiac patients from 8% to 80 %
      • The Drone uses GPS technology to track the patient’s location
    • Predicted to improve serving and saving more lives that could not be possible prior due to the delay of time taken for the ambulance to arrive to the patient.
  • Improved treatments to Diseases or Health Problems
    • More research on finding ways to incurable diseases like HIV, AIDS, Asthma
    • Better machines built through technology to better adapt to diseases or other health problems
      • Pacemaker - uses electrical pulses to make heart beat at a normal rate
      • Electronic Aspirin - Blocks signals of pain causing neurotransmitters
      • Laser - Used to remove kidney stones


  • Easy access to Electronic medical record by doctors to better treat patients
    • Search Engines like Google accurately medical trends by analysing the queries for diseases like flu to look for flu breakouts
      • Google Flu is an example that looks for search entries flu to determine medical trends in flu breakout - the trends are high in the flu season
    • Individual records of patients help doctors know more about their health and diseases
      • Especially for children, databases can track vaccines pending to children to ensure they are protected from potential viruses or diseases
Technology’s impact on Education
  • Technology made educational resources more abundant.
    • It gave us the ability to access the Internet at the touch of our fingertips through portable devices.
      • Some popular portable devices include: smartphones, tablets, laptops, etc.
    • With the use of technological devices students can access their class material at home through the internet.
      • Students can get a hold of eBooks, course textbook, class notes, etc.
  • Technology is used to enhance students’ education.
    • Technological devices such as printers, smartphones, desktops, laptops, etc.. are used to  aid students for their education.
    • DeVry University claims that 91% of college faculty are incorporating social media in their teaching and 80% of professors have at least one social media account.
  • Technology allows for more efficient research
    • For example we can use a search engine like google to quickly suggest web pages that are of relevance to what you searched for.
    • We can save time in our research by browsing through free online encyclopedias rather than going through books.
      • Wikipedia is a renowned encyclopedia containing information on all sorts of things.
Resources for the Presentation


  • Resources used for the Healthcare :






      • A post on the top five medical technology innovations








How we plan on presenting the 10 min ISU presentation
  • We plan on filming our presentation on a phone
    • we will use iMovie to edit and polish our final look.
    • In order to catch the audience’s attention we will add background music and pictures throughout the presentation
  • We will expand on the points listed in our outline
  • We will use pictures and put our voices on it
    • With the use of multimedia we will be able to get our points across more easily
    • Along with the information, the audience will be engaged due to visuals


  • We will also have video
    • Showing the amazing technology in healthcare and transportation
  • Take a Stand on Technology having a good impact on us
    • Three arguments will be based on the advancements in the field of transportation, healthcare and education improving our lives

  • Projected presentation schedule:
    • Introduction to topic - 1 min
    • Arguments and Evidence to our Stand - 8 min
    • Conclusion - 1 min
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