Week 12

We had the group presentations for class today, and overall you could see that a lot of effort had gone into putting the various sites together :) There were 3 presentations today, one on aeroplanes, one on space junk, and the last one on technology and land use! Can't really recall the exact names but it was along these lines. From all the presentations, i managed to pick out the most significant example to me, which was the China Straddling Bus! Blogger says i've exceeded my limit to upload photos -.- so here's a video instead!

I thought this way of incorporating technology into improving land space is way cool, and can probably top the list of China's inventions! With the Straddling Bus, it allows buses to function like MRTs, and this lets it move at faster speeds as well, making the whole service more cost-efficient. This should be implemented in Singapore! We're always bothered by bus lanes and traffic jams with long queues of buses at the side (esp near school, haha), hence such a form of transport will definitely speed things up on the road.

One other thing noteworthy about today's session is the quote that Prof mentioned-

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. -Martin H Fischer

Although it kinda has no link to the content of the presentations today, I thought this to be true, and that it is important to keep these in our heads as University students. Many a times while doing our research papers we tend to get carried away with the content and knowledge that we're obtaining. We fail to internalize it fully and we just proceed to rephrasing and dumping them into our papers. So I thought this quote would be a good reminder for us all to not take the easy way out, but to make the effort to absorb and internalize the knowledge that we gain through the research process.

Overall, I'd rate today's session a 8/10 as it was interesting to learn about other arenas in which technology has had an impact in, apart from what was fixed for us to learn during the past 11 weeks.