Flying Cars

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Overview

Flying Cars

Anders Liljeholm [4]

Nano_Demos_022.jpg [5]

Nano_Demos_028.jpg [6]

Nano_Demos_029.jpg [7]

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Nano_Demos_027.jpg [9]

Description:

Visitors "travel through time" with a host playing several characters: from the Future, 1900, 1945 and 1999. Visitors answer questions in a quiz about other people's predictions of future technology, and then are invited to make their own predictions.

Objectives

Big Idea:

The future is unpredictable. People in the past have made wild and crazy predictions - many inaccurate - but many came true. Some of the crazy predictions about the future of nanotechnology may come true as well.

Learning goals:

Visitors will consider potential implications of nanotechnology. (Where will nano go?)

NISE Net Content Map:

Nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanoengineering lead to new knowledge and innovations that weren't possible before.

Nanotechnologies have costs, risks, and benefits that affect our lives in ways we cannot always predict.

Universal design:

Provide multiple entry points and multiple ways of engagement

Credits

Developed for the NISE Network with funding from the National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0532536 and 0940143. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this product are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.

Owning institution:

Oregon Museum of Science and Industry [10]

Checklist

Scientist reviewed? check_reviewed

Peer reviewed? check_reviewed

Visitor evaluation? check_reviewed

Nano Topics

Society, policy, and economics [11]

Audience

11 and up [12]

Permissions

[18]
Creative Commons
Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

Catalog section:

Programs

What kind of program?:

Stage presentation

Nano topics:

Society, policy, and economics

Audience:

11 and up

Content keywords:

history

predictions

flying cars

stage

demonstration

Highlight this product during NanoDays?:

K-12:

Resources

[3]

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

Flying Cars Lesson Plan [19]

Flying Cars Sound Effect [20]

Flying Cars Presentation [21]

Links:

Flying Cars Training Video [22]

See FAQ #10 to learn more about downloading NISE Net video [23]

Video:

Evaluations

Comments

Nike releases Back to Future shoe [24]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [4] on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 12:49.

It was recently announced that Nike was selling copies of the self-tying shoe from Back to the Future part 2. As it turns out, those shoes are not in fact self-tying. They just look a lot like the one from the movie, complete with blinking lights.

https://www.nikemedia.com/en/category/nike_mag_1/feature_archive/2011/9/... [25]

If they had released a self-tying shoe, I was thinking about food pills or force fields as a sci-fi invention that doesn't exist yet.

Silver coat [28]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [4] on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:42.

If you want your own metallic coat, you can get one here:
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/KAREWEAR-Coat-8WY74 [29]

Seinfeld T-shirts are here:
http://www.t-shirts.com/seinfeld-logo-tshirt.html [30]

Plastic hats are cheap here:
http://www.centurynovelty.com/detail_290_014-66820.html?reasonAdded=Item... [31]

And bowler hats as well:
http://www.centurynovelty.com/detail_290_014-66999.html?reasonAdded=Item... [32]

Ray Kurzweil isn't always right [33]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [4] on Mon, 11/29/2010 - 16:00.

As you might have figured out in the demonstration, Ray Kurzweil's predictions aren't always true.

There's a good story about him and his predictions here:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/ray-kurzweils-slippery-futur... [34]

Flying hats [35]

Submitted by Anders Liljeholm [4] on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 13:44.

I discovered recently that if I throw my hat in the air as I'm hiding behind the cart during the costume change, it gets a laugh. I think it's a good addition to the presentation.

Flying Cars

Flying Cars

Description:

Big Idea:

Learning goals:

NISE Net Content Map:

Universal design:

Owning institution:

Checklist

Nano Topics

Audience

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Catalog section:

What kind of program?:

Nano topics:

Audience:

Content keywords:

Highlight this product during NanoDays?:

K-12:

Download all files (ZIP) [3]

Files:

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Video:

Nike releases Back to Future shoe [24]

Silver coat [28]

Ray Kurzweil isn't always right [33]

Flying hats [35]