this class is about technology and psychology for this want to think about the question and and also make a powerpoint.
Option 3: Micro-Talk Presentation “Time capsule 2125: What will future humans need to understand about us?”
Overview
Imagine that humans living 100 years from now have discovered a time capsule from 2025 and you get to choose one item inside it. Your task is to select a single artifact, app, practice, or digital behavior from our current technological moment and argue why it will help future humans understand:
● Who we were
● What we valued
● What we feared
● How technology shaped our humanity
This is not a show-and-tell or a product review. It’s a philosophical and ethical reflection on the meaning of an object/artifact as a symbol of human life in the early 21st century. Your goal is to explain how your chosen artifact captures an essential truth about the human condition in a digital age.
Core Requirements
1. Choose an artifact that reveals something deep about humanity
Your artifact must come from contemporary digital or technological life, for example (just to spark ideas), the iPhone, a VR headset, or a location-tracking app (there are many to choose from). When choosing your artifact, focus on why it matters, not what it does.
2. Explain the human value, fear, or need it represents
What does this artifact say about a human value, such as connection, identity, pleasure, hope, or any other. You choose one central value or theme and build your argument around it.
3. Analyze what it reveals about our existential condition
This is the philosophical heart of the assignment. Consider questions like:
● What does this artifact show about how humans cope with uncertainty or complexity?
● What does it suggest about what we find meaningful?
● How does it represent our search for belonging, purpose, or identity?
● What contradiction or tension does it expose?
Think in terms of what it means to live as a human being in 2025.
4. Identify the ethical lesson embedded in the artifact
Every object from our digital age carries a warning or an aspiration, sometimes both. Identify the ethical dimension:
● Does it reveal the dangers of surveillance?
● Does it show our desire for convenience at the cost of autonomy?
● Does it highlight inequities or access gaps?
You should articulate a values-based lesson future humans could learn from it.
5. Consider what future people might misunderstand
Help the future audience avoid misinterpretation. For example, they might think our obsession with photos meant we were all vein, not anxious about memory. This helps you clarify what the artifact truly reveals about us.
6. Make a Claim for Why This Artifact (Not Another) Belongs in the Time Capsule
End with a persuasive statement tying everything together:
● What makes this artifact symbolic?
● Why is it more important than other possible choices?
● What essential truth would be lost without it?
This final claim is your “mic-drop moment.”
