Technology Rules and Rocks the World

Technology Rules and Rocks the World

Giving people licence to develop, to build, is incredibly empowering and the root of real innovation.

Advances in technology are no yawning matter…

For years the very mention of a career in technology raised little more than eyebrows, induced yawns and generally brought conversations to an abrupt end. It conjured up images of moustached and middle aged men (like your Dad) fiddling with computers. The mention of the word ‘programming’ or ‘microchip’, ‘database’ or ‘server’ would send a geeky shiver down your spine. IT was not cool.

If you let slip to your friends you were considering a career in this insipid, colourless, decaying world you would never again be asked about your ambitions or later your job. You were labelled the toe curling-ly ‘boring’ one who always wore anoraks (regardless of whether you did). BUT THIS IS ALL MYTH. This is all misguided, inaccurate, ignorant folklore of long ago…

Technology INSPIRES, CREATES, SIMPLIFIES, BREAKS RECORDS, ACHIEVES THE IMPOSSIBLE, SAVES LIVES…

A few examples of how technology is quite simply the coolest thing…

The world’s brain…

Think of technology as the world’s brain, its powerhouse, the means by which the planet we live in develops and progresses. Imagine if a person only used about 20% of their brain? Think of the waste, the untapped resources. Well, that is what the world is doing - only using a small percentage.

Medical…radical…

A cheap chip has been developed which rapidly identifies cancer proteins in a drop of blood – what normally takes multiple technicians hours to do now only requires a single drop of blood and can be analysed in a matter of minutes.

Key Facts

• A cheap microchip has been developed which rapidly identifies cancer proteins in a drop of blood in a matter of minutes.
• An iPill which delivers medicine in your body in the right place at the right time.
• Electricity from soil-dwelling microbes!

Pedal-power…

In remote and rural areas where electricity is a scarce or unknown entity, 12-volt batteries can be charged by pedalling. 6 hours can create and store enough electrical energy to light 6 homes for 30 days!

Energy in a bucket of dirt

Imagine soil-dwelling microbes which digest organic materials and naturally produce a small current which can be harnessed with a simple device consisting of 2 electrodes and a small circuit board. Well, this is exactly what a Harvard team of faculty and African students have tapped into…Technology takes dirt to a whole new level. Imagine the benefits this could bring to remote communities all over the world.

iPill

We've all heard of the iPod and iPhone, but probably not the iPill. And no, it’s not made by Apple. It is in fact designed by Philips and promises to deliver medicine in the right place, at the right time, inside your body. It consists of a microprocessor, battery, wireless radio, pump and a reservoir for medication. Once swallowed it allows researchers to keep track of its location through a wireless transmitter.