Future+Technology

  Future Technology - May 1     … Requirements: Create a new page on your wikispace, and name it "Future Technology". Copy and past the information in blue to your wikispace and answer the questions:

Video 1: The UK’s Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel have teamed up for a groundbreaking documentary on air safety, ironically crashing a Boeing 727 in the middle of a Mexican desert in the name of the cause. List three pros about crashing the plane on purpose:to know what will happen, practice emergency landing and who will survive in an accident. List three cons about this idea:waste of money, dirty dessert and destroyed a plane List one pro from another group: We will the damage List one con from another group: expensive

Link 2: When you picture fighting off pirates in the open sea, you most likely get a Pirates of the Caribbean vision of cannons and sword play, but as Popular Science points out, commercial ships do not carry weapons leaving themselves with little defense. Two Japanese companies have devised a system they’re calling the Anti-Piracy Curtain, which makes use of the most abundant resource commercial ships have while at sea: water. List three pros about the "super-soaker":prevent pirate to clim in the ship, safe and easy to use. List three cons:too small, can be easily destroy and will not cover the whole ship. List one pro from another group: easy to use List one con from another group: can kill someone

Link 3: List three pros about this robot: it can balance, carry thing and can walk any where. List three cons about this robot: slow, expensive and load. List one pro from another group: carry heave things List one con from another group: really creepy

Video 4: List three pros about future cell phones:flexible, super thin and light weight. List three cons: easy to lose, expensive and break easily. List one pro from another group: looks nice and has many features. List one con from another group: we dont know if they are going to make this technology

- Choose one video you want to write about:robot - Are you for the new technology or against it?i'm going for the new technology. - Write a TV public service announcement explaining why we should continue or discontinue with this technology. - Create the PSA on PhotoBooth. - Upload the PSA to your wikispace. - I want this to be fun and I want you to think! .