Connected, yet Isolated
Nano No-no
"I like it when ya call me 'Big Da-ta'"
Mr. Roboto
The Doctor is Out
100
This unflattering picture of oneself rejects the standards of beauty the media portrays.
What is an Ugly Selfie?
100
The ability to see and control atoms and molecules at an extremely small level.
What is Nanotechnology?
100
Large volumes of information collected through technology for a specific purpose.
What is Big Data?
100
A computer system with an Artificial Intelligence that was created by IBM and competed on Jeopardy.
What is Watson?
100
Drugs that allegedly enhance attention control and memory.
What are Cognitive Enhancers?
200
A social networking dating app designed to introduce singles.
What is Tinder?
200
A small machine that builds products atom by atom.
What is a Fabricator?
200
A small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user’s browser while they are using that website. It is used to store records of someone’s browsing history.
What is a cookie?
200
Robots/computer systems that possess a human-LIKE intelligence.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
200
This machine can build organs and body parts.
What is a 3D printer?
300
Ray Lam's political career ended when this happened.
What is "inappropriate" Facebook pictures of him leaked to the press?
300
This has many Fabricators working together to create mass amounts of products.
What is a Nanofactory?
300
Sensors in stores can pick up on this from your phone, causing store owners to track your shopping behaviour.
What is a WiFi signal?
300
A robot that will one day perform tasks in homes for people with disabilities and/or mobility issues.
What is Asimo?
300
This bacteria threatens a return to a pre-antibiotic era and can kill.
What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?
400
Caroline Criado-Perez received these causing Twitter to create a "Report Abuse" button.
What are death and rape threats/tweets?
400
Extremely tiny robots designed to perform a number of tasks.
What are Nanobots?
400
A feature created by Mozilla that helps you understand how you are being tracked online.
What is Collusion?
400
We will reach a point in time when technology advances so quickly that it will transform human life.
What is the Coming Singularity?
400
This allows doctors to track a patient's medication use.
What is the Smart Pill?
500
A term that states our self worth is based on the perceptions of those we interact with.
What is the looking-glass self?
500
A scenario where self-replicating nanobots could build more of themselves by consuming all matter on Earth.
What is Grey Goo?
500
A company that uses Big Data to help retailers answer questions about their businesses.
What is Euclid Analytics?
500
This animal-like robot was designed to carry heavy loads.
What is the Robotic Pack Mule/the LS3?
500
3D printers print real organs and body parts out of this material.
What are human cell/tissues?