5 thoughts on “Future of Transportation, J. Himelrick”
Overall, I liked your slidecast. There were a couple things that really stood out to me: I liked that you used a combination of older photos/images and also used some current ones. Going from the Jetsons to the hoverboard to Interstellar was a good progression. Your observation about the flying cars on Coruscant was very interesting and something that I had not thought about before. So interesting that people thought that in the future there would still be roads. Now the suggestions for improvement. These are just little observations in the grand scheme of things. You say “prediction” a lot. Not necessarily a bad thing, but just something that stuck out to me. Also, it seemed to me that from your first slide, you were setting up the slidecast to show the different types of predictions of the future of transportation. But in your wrap up in the last slide, you seem to be saying why people made predictions, which kinda worked, but also felt a little disconnected from everything else. I think that not introducing a new idea in your final slide might have been a smoother way to finish the slidecast off. But, like I said in the beginning, I think you did a great job!
Solid work! I appreciate the fact that you began your presentation with a recognizable TV show, The Jetsons, that people can relate to and immediately engage with. I was also glad to learn about Isaac Asimov, the prolific scientist and Sci-Fi author. I really enjoyed your analysis of the flying car as a kind of ‘clock-radio’ style of invention in that the integration of these two technologies precipitated future designs of what the most optimal flying car ought to look like. Your use of mass media (ie. movies and TV) to demonstrate the ubiquity of these futuristic technologies in popular culture was great. From the outset of your presentation, I was hoping to receive a more chronological discussion on the history of transportation. It seems as if your presentation is slightly scattered as you jump from the hover board to flying cars to space travel with no real connections made between the examples you use. Additionally, at times, it was difficult to understand you because you were narrating the slides relatively quickly. A recommendation for your final Slidecast would be to limit the amount of words you say per slide so that you can comfortably discuss each slide’s material without feeling the need to rush or speed up towards the end of the slide. Nonetheless, I liked the overall development of your presentation from beginning with The Jetsons in 1962 to current forms of futuristic technology and proposed space travel to Mars in the near future. Nice job, JT.
JT,
I really liked your presentation. I do not know if you meant to have pop culture as the main focus for all of your discussion, but it gave a very good and interesting backdrop. I thought it was interesting how you did not only focus on cars, but expanded your scope to include jetpacks, hover boards, teleportation, and even space travel. You definitely gave an accurate well-rounded view of transportation. One thing that you did mention for almost every invention, was that we have not been able to do it. You say that the “human capacity for prediction” might now be able to handle reality or probability. Its almost as if people always want to dream about what they know will not be possible (or think will not) in their lifetime. One thing that may help for your final project is doing the audio all in one step rather than doing it in chunks. Yes, it is harder to get a good “copy,” but it sounds more fluid in the end. Overall it was a really good and informative presentation.
-Josh
JT,
Nicely done! A couple of highlights from your presentation for me: first of all, I dig the Ken Burns-style zoom-in and zoom-out thing you had going on. It was a nice touch. Regarding the content, I really liked how you talked about the behavior of drivers of flying cars. According to Star Wars and many others, flying cars will still be “driven” along set paths in a manner similar to current traffic conditions. This is interesting given that cars are part of a socio-technical system that involves roads and traffic regulations (among many other things). What would happen if roads and regulations were removed from the equation? The predictions seem to assume that cars can be taken from their current context and seamlessly placed in the sky. I also enjoyed the fact that your analysis spanned many decades and stressed that society still predicts a world of flying cars. The context around these flying cars may change, but the central object has been a point of fascination for quite some time. One suggestion for your final project is to narrow your topic. Transportation is very broad, and although I think you did a good job of hitting many different types of transportation, your analysis could have gone even more in depth if you had stuck to just flying cars. Overall, I enjoyed watching your slidecast.
I enjoyed the way that you analyzed futurism within popular culture, and discussed how certain predictions have played out over time. Futurism makes up a large part of popular culture. You were able to introduce a piece of technology and explain the cultural ripples that it has caused. When discussing the flying car, it is important to explain why someone might imagine one, and how it is the logical next step for automotive technology. I liked how you mentioned the fact that in pieces of media, flying cars move along invisible highways in the sky. I felt that was a good companion to the argument that humans take a futuristic aspect and apply it to existence technology. This fact is apparent with flying cars, but it is also apparent in the unimaginative way that people perceive roads will work in the future. I also liked how you brought light on some pieces of technology that were invented and subsequently altered or discarded. The real life jetpack depicted in Thunderball and the current iteration of the hover board from Back To The Future were good examples of this fact. The jetpack proved unreliable and today’s hover boards are not worthy of the. I noticed some minor audio blips within the slidecast, but they can be overcome for the final project.
Overall, I liked your slidecast. There were a couple things that really stood out to me: I liked that you used a combination of older photos/images and also used some current ones. Going from the Jetsons to the hoverboard to Interstellar was a good progression. Your observation about the flying cars on Coruscant was very interesting and something that I had not thought about before. So interesting that people thought that in the future there would still be roads. Now the suggestions for improvement. These are just little observations in the grand scheme of things. You say “prediction” a lot. Not necessarily a bad thing, but just something that stuck out to me. Also, it seemed to me that from your first slide, you were setting up the slidecast to show the different types of predictions of the future of transportation. But in your wrap up in the last slide, you seem to be saying why people made predictions, which kinda worked, but also felt a little disconnected from everything else. I think that not introducing a new idea in your final slide might have been a smoother way to finish the slidecast off. But, like I said in the beginning, I think you did a great job!
JT,
Solid work! I appreciate the fact that you began your presentation with a recognizable TV show, The Jetsons, that people can relate to and immediately engage with. I was also glad to learn about Isaac Asimov, the prolific scientist and Sci-Fi author. I really enjoyed your analysis of the flying car as a kind of ‘clock-radio’ style of invention in that the integration of these two technologies precipitated future designs of what the most optimal flying car ought to look like. Your use of mass media (ie. movies and TV) to demonstrate the ubiquity of these futuristic technologies in popular culture was great. From the outset of your presentation, I was hoping to receive a more chronological discussion on the history of transportation. It seems as if your presentation is slightly scattered as you jump from the hover board to flying cars to space travel with no real connections made between the examples you use. Additionally, at times, it was difficult to understand you because you were narrating the slides relatively quickly. A recommendation for your final Slidecast would be to limit the amount of words you say per slide so that you can comfortably discuss each slide’s material without feeling the need to rush or speed up towards the end of the slide. Nonetheless, I liked the overall development of your presentation from beginning with The Jetsons in 1962 to current forms of futuristic technology and proposed space travel to Mars in the near future. Nice job, JT.
JT,
I really liked your presentation. I do not know if you meant to have pop culture as the main focus for all of your discussion, but it gave a very good and interesting backdrop. I thought it was interesting how you did not only focus on cars, but expanded your scope to include jetpacks, hover boards, teleportation, and even space travel. You definitely gave an accurate well-rounded view of transportation. One thing that you did mention for almost every invention, was that we have not been able to do it. You say that the “human capacity for prediction” might now be able to handle reality or probability. Its almost as if people always want to dream about what they know will not be possible (or think will not) in their lifetime. One thing that may help for your final project is doing the audio all in one step rather than doing it in chunks. Yes, it is harder to get a good “copy,” but it sounds more fluid in the end. Overall it was a really good and informative presentation.
-Josh
JT,
Nicely done! A couple of highlights from your presentation for me: first of all, I dig the Ken Burns-style zoom-in and zoom-out thing you had going on. It was a nice touch. Regarding the content, I really liked how you talked about the behavior of drivers of flying cars. According to Star Wars and many others, flying cars will still be “driven” along set paths in a manner similar to current traffic conditions. This is interesting given that cars are part of a socio-technical system that involves roads and traffic regulations (among many other things). What would happen if roads and regulations were removed from the equation? The predictions seem to assume that cars can be taken from their current context and seamlessly placed in the sky. I also enjoyed the fact that your analysis spanned many decades and stressed that society still predicts a world of flying cars. The context around these flying cars may change, but the central object has been a point of fascination for quite some time. One suggestion for your final project is to narrow your topic. Transportation is very broad, and although I think you did a good job of hitting many different types of transportation, your analysis could have gone even more in depth if you had stuck to just flying cars. Overall, I enjoyed watching your slidecast.
I enjoyed the way that you analyzed futurism within popular culture, and discussed how certain predictions have played out over time. Futurism makes up a large part of popular culture. You were able to introduce a piece of technology and explain the cultural ripples that it has caused. When discussing the flying car, it is important to explain why someone might imagine one, and how it is the logical next step for automotive technology. I liked how you mentioned the fact that in pieces of media, flying cars move along invisible highways in the sky. I felt that was a good companion to the argument that humans take a futuristic aspect and apply it to existence technology. This fact is apparent with flying cars, but it is also apparent in the unimaginative way that people perceive roads will work in the future. I also liked how you brought light on some pieces of technology that were invented and subsequently altered or discarded. The real life jetpack depicted in Thunderball and the current iteration of the hover board from Back To The Future were good examples of this fact. The jetpack proved unreliable and today’s hover boards are not worthy of the. I noticed some minor audio blips within the slidecast, but they can be overcome for the final project.