Session 13

Time really flies and we have finished our last class of TWC with a sweet-bitter feeling. We have been through 13 weeks of TWC lessons with my classmates and have indeed learnt a lot from Prof on the perspective on technology and world change. This is the last week of TWC lesson and we need to start preparing for the final exams. This week’s presentations were very nice and interesting, which consist of technology and politics, technology and terrorism, Tablet technology, and my group’s presentation which is about enabling beauty through technology.

I would focus more on my group’s presentation about beauty. We spent a relatively long time to do research and setting up the website to make it look nice and informative. However, some of the limitations and difficulties that we faced were how to integrate the TWC to beauty. Some of the technologies that are used in the past such as the foot binding were considered beauty in the past, however, it was not considered beauty in present, where beauty were very based on the outer beauty such as slim and thick makeup. Hence, actually beauty is very subjective and it’s the perception of beauty that changes from the past to present and will continue to change in the future. Therefore, beauty is actually very subjective, what may be considered as beauty in the past may not be considered beauty in the future. Therefore, it is very interesting and our group decided to choose to research on this topic.

I would rate this week’s lesson a 10/10 as it is very interesting and fulfilling with all the nice and informative websites and broaden our knowledge and perspective on what technology can bring changes to our live. This may be the end of our TWC journey, but it will be another beginning for my live towards technology and world changes experienced by myself. Thank you for the past 13 weeks full of knowledge and perspectives. Till we meet again!