Tips for assembly

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Perhaps you can use the following structure as a rough guide for your topic:

  1. Describe the technology wherever appropriate, including details of how it works (literature references)
  2. Present or contrast the problems and opportunities (literature references and your own perception), based on existing facts and expected consequences (current and expected future)
  3. Consequences (current and expected future) or future developments
    - enumerate
    - assess (how realistic, how likely?)
    - evaluate, classify, if necessary show a comparison of literature, compare evaluations in literature
  4. Own overall assessment

This structure is of course not obligatory. Points 2 and 3 may overlap somewhat depending on the topic.

Re 2: In order to present the problems and opportunities or to be able to understand the problem at all, the essential technical details (mode of operation, structure, technical background) must normally be presented in considerable detail (in particular, they must also be understood by the speaker). This also makes it clear that a superficial treatise or an unspecific list of literature is not sufficient for point 1.

Re 3: An analysis of (or statement on) development opportunities or a future projection is necessary to assess the consequences. This involves medium-term and (very) long-term potentials. If possible, with literature evidence, but also as your own view (or imagination).

Example 1

Fitness apps with addictive potential could, in the long term, lead to total recording of all bodily functions and, with network access, to complete health transparency with implications for legislation (health insurance options) or coercion to behave in a certain way... but also to a considerably better predictability and thus preventability of acute disease risks (spread of infection, long-term data for causes of disease, etc.).

Example 2

3D printers are still partly "toys" today, but artificial bones are already being printed and, in the long term, one could imagine that functional organs will be printed and all kinds of medium-sized objects will no longer have to be manufactured by companies. Perhaps this is the next industrial revolution that (instead of robotizing factories) will eliminate the need to work every day?