By: Sean McGahan
Three words of advice: Befriend an engineer.
The best and brightest of this group are working quickly to get you a cell phone that you can weave into you shirt, attach a headset to and call your friends as quick as you can say “Billy.”
No clumsy button pressing. No dropping an expensive piece of equipment in a toilet bowl.
This notion and more were talked about at the SIUIS conference during the weekend at the Engineering Building.
This student-run conference helps educate aspiring engineers (and aspiring understanders of engineers like myself) look into the future and see how different kinds of technologies are advancing.
For someone without the base scientific and technical knowledge of an engineering student, the jargon and statistics can be intimidating.
A chip that is able to test itself sounds like a good thing, but the mechanics of such a phenomenon are beyond me. I’m still trying to figure out the physics of why toilets in Australia flush in the opposite direction as the ones I use.
Despite my confusion, the overall theme of these advancements stands out — if you’re not the one making this new technology, you’d better at least be aware of it.
Otherwise, we’ll all be left eating the dust of robots that are performing our jobs.
Find your niche and make sure your human attributes are not something that can easily be replicated by a machine.
They’re working on cameras that have similar features to a human eye.
So watch out.
