Dominic P Lyate

I think this is a great idea because so many women choose not to get screened for breast and ovarian cancer because they do not want to visit a doctor’s office. These kits would make it much easier for women to get tested and will hopefully decrease the number of deaths from breast and ovarian cancer. I do think there are some risks involved with sending genetic information through the mail or posting online and this will turn some people away from the kits. However, for me, the benefits outweigh the risks and I would be interested to see if similar kits could be designed to test for other types of cancer or disease.

I do agree with Mark’s points and i agree with your comment about its common sense but most of us don’t practice as much due to nerves. I think when presentation time comes and your nervous, it helps to take a deep breath and take your time in what you are trying to say. Its important to practice, practice, practice because sometimes someone may get on stage to present and they will forget everything they had to talk about. Sometimes people lose their train of thought due to nerves.

I would have to agree when you both say that practice is key to giving a good presentation. However, I think too much practice can be negative to your presentation as well. When you practice too much, you tend to memorize every word that you say and typically ends up being scripted even if that was not the intention. When it becomes “scripted” based of memorization, if you have a hiccup during your presentation, it can throw it completely for a loop because you then start to worry and think too much about what you need to say next. I think that the key is having an extensive knowledge about the topic of presentation so that, even if you have a brain fart, you dont worry as much because you know the topic being discussed and can essentially wing it. Knowledge breeds confidence

I had a similar post recently in regards to successful presentations and the same tips were discussed. As stated in previous comments, I really believe a lot of these are common sense, but these things are easier said than done. For the most part, once you get in front of a crowd your concentration on these things tends to fade when the nerves arise. That’s why the most important tip is to practice over and over. You can’t practice too much.

I agree with all of the comments above, especially the one about the key points in this article being common sense. But depending on the type of person you are it may be more difficult to follow through with these tips. I think that practicing plays an important role in a presentation, but like Arren said, too much practice can be negative. This first takeaway of “showing some energy” can be difficult when a presentation sounds scripted.I think people should practice enough to the point where they feel comfortable with the material they are presenting because even if you get distracted it’s easier to remember where you left off. In addition, it’s very difficult to keep your audience engaged when they have a number of distractions at their fingertips. That’s why I think that it is important to tell a story throughout your presentation. It gives the audience an opportunity to relate with the persona or even put himself/herself in that situation. By telling a story, the audience is more likely to pay attention to your presentation.

I would also agree that the points seem to be common sense but many times people do not actually follow these guidelines in their presentations. I think the most interesting point made was to create two decks with one being very high-level and the other having more details to distribute after the presentation. I think this is a great idea and could definitely be used in our future careers. As much as I think too much text on a PowerPoint is overwhelming and distracting, I know that people are not always listening to the presentation, so by sending a detailed PowerPoint after the meeting you can make sure that people have all of the information that you presented.

I think the super obvious industry to be disrupted is the automotive industry. Manufacturers will have to alter the way they build cars to support this new autonomous concept. Also, I think that car services such as taxis, Uber, Lyft, etc. will feel the waves of this disruption, because if cars can drive themselves, then all of those drivers will be out of a job. This also has the potential to disrupt public transportation, as people may now find it more convenient to ride in an autonomous car which is private, but still allows them to multitask, since they aren’t actually driving the vehicle.

I find the most interesting industry that autonomous vehicles will disrupt is the emergency services industry (police, emt, firefighters). When and if autonomous vehicles reach a critical mass, emergency services will be able to communicate with the cars on the road to tell them to get out of the way in order for them to travel as quickly as possible to the emergency sites. This will result in faster response times to criminal activities and medical emergencies as vehicles will part before the emergency vehicles get into close enough proximity that they need to slow down.

There is no doubt that the arrival of autonomous vehicles will disrupt a wide array of industries, such as all of the ones mentioned so far. Another industry that comes to mind is the car maintenance (I can’t think of a better term for it) industry. For example, if your autonomous car breaks down or needs to be repaired, then who will fix it? Since these cars who a completely different build architecture and require different parts than regular cars, then car mechanics will not know how to work on these cars. There will need to be additional training for mechanics. Either that, or new companies will arise that focus on repairing autonomous cars. Additionally, if these cars will be like the Tesla Model S, then improvements and adjustments to autonomous cars can be done, well, autonomously. If cars can do this on their own rather than through the use of a mechanic, then that will further hurt the car maintenance industry.

On a side note, I don’t see autonomous vehicles becoming mainstream for a long time. First, they will be far too expensive for most people to afford. Also, a most importantly, a lot of people truly enjoy driving and won’t want to give up driving for themselves. Autonomous vehicles will no doubt have some great uses for now (such as allowing disabled people to get around and, as Tom mentioned, possibly being used as emergency vehicles), but I think it will be a long time before they leave its small niche market and enter into the mainstream.

I think that PECO and other companies will not see Tesla as a threat until it is too late. This would be like Comcast teaming up with Google and the Chromecast. If they do see it as a threat, they will try to compete on their own.