Sunday, November 6, 2011

Presentation week! Was pretty nervous and tried memorising the script the night before, was pretty glad our group get to go first so that I can sit back and enjoy other presentations. Our group did a presentation on online shopping or eBusiness, looking at the way business works before advancement of technology like internet. Starting with a simple milestones of traditional business practice to how internet infiltrated the business works, we went on to talk about how eBusiness are carried out today, aspects of it, advantages and disadvantages of it and the impacts it has.
Regarding other group's presentation, the group about GM food leave a deeper impression because of the video done but I couldn't really register much information from their presentation, perhaps because GM food is an extremely common topic and the points raised, like its impacts on economy, social and environment, controversies of GM food had been told to us umpteen times and the project does not differentiate itself much from the abundant information out there. Perhaps they should add in a little more on their own perspectives and predict how this technology will progress in the future, the kind of law and legislation that will be put in place to ensure ethical testing, or labeling.
The presentation about online dating was rather interesting because the topic chosen was very fresh. The idea of online dating does not appeal to me much because I prefer forming human interactions as it is. It would be rather interesting if dating sites, could arrange for random meetings after pairings without prior knowledge by the individuals of when and where they will meet and who they meet. It is like playing with fate and trying to bring individuals which might be suitable for each other together by letting them have a chance to meet, and letting fate decide whether they will progress from there.
For the presentation about kinectic motion, I felt that I couldn't grasp the directions of the project and what they are narrowscoping on, are we looking at kinetic energy as source of energy? or exploration of technology that makes use of kinetic motion. I felt that it is off focus