hi everyone
it’s good to be here today um so today
I’m gonna be talking to you about the
future I think there’s a lot of
interesting things happening now in
science and science has come a long way
many of us have gone from using you know
desktop computers to using your tablets
to now communicating via Apple watch
so things have definitely come a long
way myself I have been working with many
friends and collaborators from different
universities and I’ve been trying to
look at how to change the way we teach
and how to change the way we were
learning one of the things that I have
been looking at is trying to use
Holograms for teaching app teaching and
also for many other applications one of
the things that I have been really
fascinated by is is the micro hololens
by Microsoft and I think it’s actually
come a long way from the first time it
was it was developed and it was looked
at currently there have been a lot of
interesting applications that had have
been implemented have been proposed to
help with trying to visualize different
things for engineers it has become very
useful tool they could actually see
things and they can actually interact
with things using these goggles using
using this this type of technology which
I think it’s very very interesting I
remember being a boy and really looking
at television shows I mean one of the
things I used to I used to like looking
at and watching was this show called The
Jetsons I don’t know if you guys know
about this but and in the show I mean
you kind of see all these futuristic
things happening and the family the
Jetsons they have a robot her name is
Rosie
and Rosie is part of the the family her
job is to kind of help the kids and also
to clean right and also to kind of make
sure that everything is everything is
working everything is functional in in
the house that she’s she’s living in now
what I find it is interesting is that a
lot of this recent has been has been
used you can you can kind of interact
with your professor now through through
television screen your professor can
come up and he could interact with you
he could he could ask your questions you
could also respond to the professor and
you could ask him any questions you have
so it’s become very much of this kind of
a world where things are now digital
we’re living in this digital world we’re
kind of interacting with people and and
working with people has come to that
using technology aspect not so long ago
actually being in my house I saw my
nephew on his phone and he was trying to
catch a Pikachu so so it seems like
technology is a part of us and and we’re
we’re very much attached to the
technology which brings me back to kind
of how do you make it how do you bring
it into a classroom setting which I
think it’s interesting recently I’ve
been working with trying to develop this
holographic technology you can call it
and it’s become very very actually fun
to play with it and to use it it’s in
the development process so they’re kind
of trying to eliminate the goggles so
that you have this image formed right in
front of you so who’s to say that I’m
really standing here today speaking to
you maybe it’s my hologram that’s
speaking to you okay but it’s it’s
challenges as well and one of the
challenges that it creates is is that
human interaction challenge right
because a lot of students want to have
that interaction with their professor or
with other students so it does create
kind of different challenges that we
have to address and we have to look at
but I think overall this is where we’re
going we’re going into this into this
world into this world where everything
you look at and everything you interact
with is gonna be in this holographic
form and I feel like it becomes even
more interesting when you walk into a
classroom and everything you observe is
a hologram to your desks to your
television to your boards everything
that you look at is is a hologram and
you don’t have to wear the hololens or
you don’t have to wear technology or you
don’t have to look at it via a tablet or
via a screen but you can be there and
you can interact with it and it could
interact with you now in education this
is actually very interesting to look at
because a lot of schools are trying to
have this kind of engagement with
students they haven’t fully gone to this
ramp or realm but they have brought in
robots and robots have interacted with
students and in many countries it’s it’s
already become something that schools
have been working on and have been
programming so the robot can also speak
different languages so if you have
someone that doesn’t speak or is not
native English speaker you can have the
robot speak in Spanish or you can have
the robot speak in another language so
students feel comfortable and they’re
able to
understand what the the course
objectives or the day-to-day objectives
are right so it becomes a tremendous
asset tremendous value to have something
like that also the other thing which I
find quite interesting is trying to have
it so that students can also kind of
imagine their parents appearing in front
of them let’s say the students are not
doing their assignments right or they’re
not doing their homeworks right
you can have your mother or father
appear right in front of you in a
hologram form tell you you must do your
homework okay or you will hear it once
you get back home right so this becomes
very very interesting right not just for
the students but also for those that are
involved in the educational setting
right this could also work wonders for
administration administration or for
other teachers in trying to develop a
professional development right where you
actually have teachers interacting with
a hologram and showing them how to
interact and how to engage with
different types of students so I find
all this to be very interesting and not
so long ago I actually was sitting in an
audience listening to a famous physicist
by the name of Michio Kaku and what he
said which was very interesting is he
said that inside that birthday card you
have a microchip right and we’ve come so
far that microchip has so much
integration in it right or it’s so
sophisticated right that you can do many
many things with it right so just
imagine if we’ve come this far in in
trying to create new technology or try
to make the technology better than what
it is today right just imagine in a
couple years what that’s gonna look like
right um I feel like in the next five
years a lot of this will be seen and
will be observed a lot of people will be
looking at this and will be kind of
wondering how how this works how this
how does this work right how does this
happen
that you just have this holographic
image and this holographic image is
really engaging with you and answering
questions and looking at you and also
maybe giving you a picture or giving you
history of the world right can you
imagine that so just sitting in and kind
of also engaging with other scientists I
feel like that there’s a lot of good and
there’s a lot of things that we also
have to work on there’s a lot of
challenges as as I mentioned one of them
being the human interaction but of
course before we even came up with all
this new technology before we developed
this new technology and we came up with
tablets and we came up with these Apple
watch and all these different things
right we used to kind of interact on a
face to face basis right we would kind
of get together and you know if there’s
something that we had a talk or we had a
dress it would be done it would be done
on a face-to-face basis but I mean we’ve
become adaptive we’ve all become
adaptive to the changes of Technology
right technology is now everywhere we
look right it’s it’s it’s in our
classroom it’s in our car it’s in our
homes it’s everywhere so it’s not to say
that we won’t completely adjust to
having a hologram or having something
speak to us that’s something that we’re
not used to but I think if
actually a lot of these challenges will
be overcome and I think that the future
does look quite interesting the other
thing which I find to be intriguing is
is having everything in in your in your
classroom be connected to the hologram
oh and and this this would be an
interesting thing because I I feel like
when you’re in a classroom you want to
not just engage with one hologram but
you might want to engage with multiple
holograms so just imagine if just having
your friend there in a hologram form but
your friend is in in a different part of
the country but just having them be
there right and and inspiring you and
motivating you right that that is
something tremendous right to have it
will of course give you motivation and
it will inspire you to work much much
harder so I think that a lot of this is
is gonna happen and and it will it will
happen in the next couple of years and
just like when I was a boy in and I
watched you know the Jetsons and I asked
myself the question will this ever
happen will this ever work right and now
couple years later right we have all
this right we have most of this right
we’re even to the point where your car
might fly right so I mean I think many
of these things will come to light and
just like Michio Kaku said things things
are changing and technology is always
changing thank you so much [Applause]