Innovative Thinking Class 20190320 by Mr Ko Ju Chun.

葛如鈞老師的一堂創新思考課 20190320

Today is the fourth class for innovative thinking, and our teacher started the class by letting us watch the TED talk by Ed Boyden. After rewatching the video, I felt that the technology would be a good remedy for diseases like epilepsy, schizophrenia and other brain diseases. As a student who studied biology in the past, I think this is a great leap in the field of neuroscience. I felt a bit upset also because when I was in secondary school, the biology textbook only taught us about how the brain works, how the neurotransmitter transmits signals and synthesize enzymes such as dopamine. The syllabus didn’t give us information about the latest information or technology that we need in the 21st century. It is only until last week I know that we can use viruses to carry genetic modification gene to our brain as the inhibitor for certain signals to cure brain diseases. This method would work vice versa such as stimulate our brains to synthesize dopamine to make us happy.

After that, Mr Ko also taught us what he learned at Singularity University. The most important thing he learned is that we have to think or work exponentially. He said that all of us are so used to linear thinking because it is passed down through our ancestors. He told us that when we take thirty steps linearly, we will achieve only thirty steps, but when we take thirty steps exponentially, we will achieve a billion meters away from the original point. This quote from Professor Ray Kurzweil motivates us to think outside the box and not following the usual procedure to do things. I agree with his saying, and if we have to stand out from other people, we have to think exponentially. We also have to work hard to double our productivity, in order to fulfill working or thinking exponentially.

Mr Ko also told us that it is important to think exponentially by showing us how technology improved in a short period of time. Cameras, personal computers and integrated circuits are those technologies which get cheaper, smaller and more effective within a short period of time. Furthermore, the artificial intelligence AlphaGo who beats mankind in a go game also proves that technology is improving at a rate that human can ever imagine. This is like a waking clock to tell me that we should be more hardworking, brave to try out new stuff so that we would not be outdated compared to society.

Lastly, Mr Ko ended the topic by showing us Stadia, the Google cloud gaming subscription project that would change the life of gamers. Google Stadia is said that it would support games in 4K resolution plus 60 fps. This would be very convenient for gamers because, with Google Chrome, we can access games with high resolution at any place. After so many heavy topics, finally, there is something lighter for us to soothe our mind. Although I don’t play a lot of games, I think with this platform being published, it may inspire me to play games. Overall, from this session, I gained knowledge for the technological improvement of mankind, and we should not take these technologies for granted.

今天是葛老師第四堂的創新思考課，他用了上個星期給我們看的Ed Boyden的TED talk作為開始。重看了這隻影片後，我覺得這個技術會成為治療癲癇，幻想症和其他腦神經疾病的一個好方式。在進入互動設計之前，是個理科生所以會覺得這個技術會是一個腦神經學的大躍進。此外，我有一點失望因為以前馬來西亞的生物課本只會教我們大腦如何運作，腦神經怎樣傳遞生物訊息和分泌多巴胺。教學課綱不會給我們在21世紀所需要的知識。直到上個星期我才知道可以用海藻的基因來屏蔽大腦的一些訊號來治療腦神經的疾病。當然，這個技術也能夠讓我們的腦製造多巴胺來讓我們變得很舒服開心。

在那之後，葛老師也教了我們一些他在奇點大學學的思想。他認為最重要的是我們必須會指數性的思考和做事方式。假如我們線性地走30步，那我們達到的距離只會是30步的距離。假設我們指數性地走三十步，我們會達到幾個億的距離。我讚同這個由Ray Kurzweil 博士所說的話，因為他有點在勉勵我們要跳出一個框架思考這樣才能達到普通人思考不到的事。

老師也向我們證明了現在的技術都是指數性在成長。從照相機，電腦，積體電路這些科技產品變得更便宜，更小，更有效就能看出科技成長的很快。AlphaGo這個人工智能更在圍棋中打敗了人類。這無疑是讓我們有點被敲醒，我們需要更努力，創新，這樣才不會落後于這個社會。

最後老師用Google所最新發佈的Stadia來結束比較重的話題。 Stadia是個雲端遊戲服務，說是可以實現4k畫質和60fps。這將會讓遊戲玩家更方便因為只要有Google Chrome瀏覽器就能隨心隨地地玩高畫質的遊戲。雖然我玩的遊戲不多，但是這個平台推出後可能會讓我有點想玩遊戲。總的來說，這堂課讓我吸收到一些最新的科技資訊，但也讓我反思隨著科技的發展，我們也應該有節制的使用科技而不是濫用它。

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