[Slide Presentations (Assign 3/12)

This semester, you will be responsible for a slide presentation based upon a future-related topic.

Presentations must:

• Run at least 10 minutes—you may utilize any presentation program you like (e.g. PowerPoint, Slides)
• Be 10-12 slides in length, excluding cover slide and works cited—introduction and conclusion slides are mandatory; presentations without an introduction and/or conclusion cannot receive full points
• Include at least one multimedia clip—no longer than 2 minutes in length
• Include an MLA Style works cited slide—not to be presented
• Include a one-page handout—to be distributed to the class the day before your presentation via Canvas*
• Crafted in Packback before presenting
  
• Be submitted to Canvas no later than the day of your presentation

*In addition to summarizing the salient points of your presentation, your handout should also echo its style and tone.

IMPORTANT: 

• To present on Zoom, you will be made a co-host. Be sure to select "Share Sound" before sharing your screen.
• Not required, but presenting with your camera on can significantly improve class engagement

Topics:

1. Cybersex: The Fusion of Technology and Sex
2. Obsolete: Five Professions that Will Soon Disappear
3. Take Me to Your Leader: What’s the Plan for Alien First Contact?
4. Flybys: Drones in Our Future
5. Inside the Hacker Threat to Our National Security
6. Baby Bust: What Happens if Americans Don’t Start Having More Babies?
7. Frankenfoods: The Rise of GMOs
8. This Used to be My Playground: Understanding Gentrification
9. Colonizing Space: What Will It Take?
10. In the Era of Designer Babies
11. How 3D Printing is Changing Everything
12. Make Haste: Five Places to Visit Before They Disappear
13. The Line 101
14. Gen Z: Five Defining Characteristics
15. Down the Line: California and High-Speed Rail
16. Is Polyamory the Next Evolution of Love and Marriage?
17. Bowing at the Alter of Tech: The Rise of Technopaganism
18. Resurrection: The Science of De-Extinction
19. On the Future of Brain Implants
20. Cozy: Embracing the Microhome Revolution
21. Wading into the Dark Web
22. Welcome Aboard: The Future of Commercial Space Travel
23. When Will We Finally Cure Cancer?
24. How Technology Rewires Our Brains
25. Nipping at Your Heels: What We Already Know About Gen Alpha
26. Thanks, But No Thanks: Living Off the Grid
27. No Place to Hide: Is Privacy a Thing of the Past?
28. Go Back to Go Forward: Neo-Luddism
29. Home Base: Living in the House of the Future
30. The Three Diseases We’re Most Likely to Eradicate
31. Understanding Universal Basic Income
32. There and Back Again: Inside Quantum Teleportation
33. Broken Again: What Would a Second American Civil War Be Like?
34. Where We Are Now: How People in the Past Imagined the 2020s
35. Five Things Gen Z Will Kill

Sec. 85 (TuTh @ 7:30) -

Week 8: Tue 3.12/Thu 3.14

1. Daniela Z - Baby Bust: What Happens if Americans Don’t Start Having More Babies?

Week 9: Tue 3.19/Thu 3.21

1. Matthew T - When Will We Finally Cure Cancer?
2. Edbert L - The Three Diseases We’re Most Likely to Eradicate
3. Sara T - This Used to be My Playground: Understanding Gentrification

Week 10: Tue 3.26/Thu 3.28

1. Nathan T - Flybys: Drones in Our Future
2. Paola S - Gen Z: Five Defining Characteristics
3. Yasnely D - Make Haste: Five Places to Visit Before They Disappear

Week 12: Tue 4.9/Thu 4.11

1. Sara H - Where We Are Now: How People in the Past Imagined the 2020s
2. Tony T - Welcome Aboard: The Future of Commercial Space Travel
3. Ariana V - Obsolete: Five Professions that Will Soon Disappear
4. Erik D - Is Polyamory the Next Evolution of Love and Marriage?

Week 13: Tue 4.16/Thu 4.18

1. David T - How 3D Printing is Changing Everything
2. Joshita K -  Resurrection: The Science of De-Extinction
3. Lewis N - Wading into the Dark Web

Week 14: Tue 4.23/Thu 4.25

1. Nathan D -  Five Things Gen Z Will Kill
2. Edvin R - On the Future of Brain Implants
3. Quinn P - How Technology Rewires Our Brains
4. Gustavo L - The Line 101

Week 15: Tue 4.30/Thu 5.2

1. Lindsay G - In the Era of Designer Babies

Week 16: Tue 5.7/Thu 5.9

1. Philly L - No Place to Hide: Is Privacy a Thing of the Past?

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Sec. 86 (TuTh @ 9) -

Week 9: Tue 3.19/Thu 3.21

1. Nishitha B - Obsolete: Five Professions that Will Soon Disappear
2. Marco E - Inside the Hacker Threat to Our National Security

Week 10: Tue 3.26/Thu 3.28

1. Huimin W - Baby Bust: What Happens if Americans Don’t Start Having More Babies?
2. Diego C - When Will We Finally Cure Cancer? 
3. Tyler H - Cybersex: The Future of Technology and Sex

Week 12: Tue 4.9/Thu 4.11

1. Kelen G - In the Era of Designer Babies
2. Frankie A - How Technology Rewires Our Brains
3. Kai Tan - Gen Z: Five Defining Characteristics

Week 13: Tue 4.16/Thu 4.18

1. Nathan Z - Down the Line: California and High-Speed Rail
2. Tingting M/Yuying W- Make Haste: Five Places to Visit Before They Disappear
3. Jessie G - Is Polyamory the Next Evolution of Love and Marriage?
4. Jenna R - Nipping at Your Heels: What We Already Know About Gen Alpha 
   

Week 14: Tue 4.23/Thu 4.25

1. Daisy G - Where We Are Now: How People in the Past Imagined the 2020s
2. Rick C - Colonizing Space: What Will It Take?
3. Emmiliano C - Welcome Aboard: The Future of Commercial Space Travel 

 Week 15: Tue 4.30/Thu 5.2

1. Jacob K- Bowing at the Alter of Tech: The Rise of Technopaganism

Week 16: Tue 5.7/Thu 5.9

1. Alvaro GE - The Line 101
2. Adara S - Understanding Universal Basic Income
3. Shayan S - No Place to Hide: Is Privacy a Thing of the Past?  
4. Jeffrey T - There and Back Again: Inside Quantum Teleportation
5. Wenjie P - Five Things Gen Z Will Kill
6. James G -  Inside the Hacker Threat to Our National Security