TWC Week 02

It's week 2!


First half of the lesson covers Technology, Society and Global Dominance which focus more on Economic, Military and Cultural aspects which describes how we identify Innovation Leaders and Dominant Players through the use of "Shahi Organizational Behavior Model." Personally, i felt that the model is very useful in identifying the trend in which the industry is moving towards through their different behavioral traits and operational attitudes.


For example in the Economic Context, US is the dominant player and has played a great influence over the world's economic. However looking at current situation (financial crisis), we can hear from the news that China is picking up and expecting to be on par with US. From this, we can identify that China is the rising star because they are optimistic in their economic situation. I believe that this is a vicious cycle, as US is the dominant player, now approaching to the level of falling star and whereas China was at no where however now is in the rising star stage. Just like when there is good, there is bad.


This is what prof show us in the class, i think is really interesting to see how various countries "improve" and the "rate" of progression in between countries. This video could make me analysis who will be the next rising star, can you?






G11 class presentation on the first half was talking more on Google! How Google being dominant in the "search" market. I think Google is really the most effective search engines. I've tried various engines such as bling, yahoo, ask, live, msn but yet google is the only engine which gives me the most efficient and relevant results. Hence, Google could be the crown of the search engine. :)


Second half of the Lesson was Technology and Human Development. Human Development Index (HDI) is a tool to measure human development. HDI includes the measure of national income, life expectancy and access to education. However is it really accurate? HDI seems to increase overtime but what is the underlying reasons that causes this increase? Different countries have different kind of cultural and the way they live, can it compare? We can't compare apple and orange isn't it? The only way we can compare for HDI perhaps is by a particular country such as Singapore in the past 5 years and now. Hence from the data to analyze whether Singapore had improved it's HDI or decreased.


Second half presentation was on "Singularity, Trans-humanism and Immortality” and “Genetic Engineering”. I think it was pretty interesting when there was a discussion going on about having another "you" meaning you are being clone to be exactly like you whether in terms of IQ or EQ. Seriously come to think of it, would you want to have another you to be in the same capacity? Or perhaps you want to have someone "ideal" to be in this world? For me, i would prefer someone who is imperfect, if everyone is too perfect or same, then the world would not be as interesting because everyone thinks the same, feels the same and do the same.


For today lesson, i would rate 7/10. I would expect TWC to be more interesting, more discussion to engage everyone in the class. It's will be kinda dry if there is too much "facts" but definitely videos open up everyone's eyes! :D

TWC Introduction

Technology and the Rise of Civilizations: Historical Timeline and Technology “Revolutions”

It's very interesting that how technology has revolved over the years and play an important role in our daily life now. From the past where there isn't any telecommunications to the first telephone, to pagers to 2G mobile and now 3G mobile phone. Technology is always improving and definitely we will expect another "shift" in the next few years that could create another historical event in the revolutions.


The first lesson make me realised that technology has created the shift of "personal touch." In the past, people usually meet up face to face to communicate but currently, people uses Facebook to communicate. Technology creates efficiency but we loses the emotional part, the feelings that we could see or hear from the person we talk to using Facebook.


Technology is moving at a faster pace than we can think of. However we need to appreciate and understand how technology had created advantages and disadvantages in the world. Hence, I'm looking forward for our next few sessions to understand how technology has changed to create a dynamic world. :)