Monday, 14 April 2008

Blog e) Describe the experience of a fictional technophile student in 2020.

So where are we going to be in 10 years time when it comes to technology? well hopefully this might provide a bit of an insight!

Rachel is a bright student who has been brought up around technology all her life. When she wakes up on a morning she wakes to the sound of her digital TV which has been set to switch on whenever she needs waking up. She leaves the TV on as she jumps into her state of the art shower with TV screens which plays the programme which is being shown on her TV in her bedroom. The digital shower also has a digital touthbrush so that Rachel can brsuh her teeth as she washes. The toothbruch and shower are set to the temperature and speed that Rachel likes.
She jumps out and gets ready and moves into the kitchen where her digital oven is set to go on at 8 30 am exactly so it is pre - heated for the bacon which Rachel loves to start the morning with. She then heads out on her motor scooter which get her to her only lecture of the day in 5 minutes flat. That may be the only face-to-face lecture she has all day as it is her monthly meet up with her tutor. Rachel will spen the rest of the day in the libary or she may even go home if she feels like it. You see for Rachel she can listen to all her lectures online and then if she has any queries there is a given time when her lecturer will be online, like an academic msn scenario, if she wishes to ask any questions.

After her work is done for the day she relaxes on her bed and shouts out the word "music" and the music set to Rachels exact taste, booms through the room. Her phone then rings to the sound of the latest number 1 track. Its her friend Caroline on the other end of the phone asking what she should where when they go out tonight. Not only that but the video call allows Rachel to see Caroline's exact outfit choices. Once she has helped Caroline decide she realises she needs to quickly ask her tutor something. Knowing that her tutor will only be online for another 5 minutes she decides to ask them over her phone, its much quicker these days!

As Rachel meets her friends at the bar they know and love she puts her thumb print into the pad on the door frame and the door opens letting her in straight away. No iding as they have her date of birth and photo already recorded. This also means that they know she has arrived and have her first drink ready for her when she gets to the bar. Her favourite drink will have also been stored in the database. She then has a fantastic night out entering tunes into the digital DJ and having drinks ready for her at the touch of a pad. After a tiring day she arrives home and all she needs to do is slip into bed. Her alarm is preset and her make up doesnt even need to be taken off as it evaporates after a certain amount of time, genious!

2 comments:

Helen jane rebekah holt said...

RINCY

Emma Kilkelly said...

Sarah,

I do like the ideas that you present here, of the advancing technology. You present quite a positive take on the possibilities of the future.

All the best

Emma