Presentation

Okay, so I need to put this research into a short presentation. Pecha Kucha style, 20 slides of 20 seconds each. Total runtime of 6 minutes 40 seconds. Tight timing, I’ll have to plan it out and rehearse a lot. I can’t put everything I’ve learnt into this, as there just isn’t enough time. I just need to select the basic points. As the slides are restrained to 20 seconds each, I decided to make my script and slides pretty separate. The slides mostly show quotes that are relevant to what is being said which I found during my research, however, for most of them I don’t directly reference them while talking. This means I can run over a slide and hopefully, it won’t be too obvious.

That went better than expected! I didn’t have any major breaks or runovers, and, at least on my side, I spoke clearly. I stuck a silly transition at the end, as I think the presentation as a whole is pretty heavy, talking about large societal changes. For some reason, even though I was somewhat confident with the script, my legs were wobbling the entire time. Guess that’s the first time I’ve had to give a presentation with a huge projector, so maybe that was it.

From the other talks, I had the most interest in Jamie’s, as it was the topic I was least knowledgeable on. How we are misled by electric cars, and they aren’t really an ideal solution in the slightest. I learnt that replacing every car in use in the UK would take up a large percentage of the world’s remaining heavy metals. This shows that this is not scalable, and we need to find a better solution. Not many solutions were mentioned, although this is likely due to the technology still emerging.

This research topic has been really interesting to me, as I don’t tend to think of myself as a very political person. Coming in with a pretty open mind, I learnt about potential societal changes to reduce the inequalities of our current systems, and how we can improve our lives to make them more fulfilling. The topic was different to a lot of others, as it’s not really that much about emerging technologies. It’s more about exploring our relationship with technology, and how we can keep it healthy and supportive.

Previous
Previous

Asteroid Mining