More so than I even thought to expect, the pitching process really did help narrow down my topic for me - I was forced to look at my broad interest in terms of what could possibly be summed up in the short span of four minutes, and it made me zero in on the three main areas that I'd most like to cover, and that would work best together to present a coherent, yet exploratory narrative.
With other assignments, certainly, the act of formulating a sort of pitch for them would be useful for the same reason: being forced to find a refined, to-the-point and brief way of summarizing the topic and what you want to do with it, and how forces your mind onto a clear track in order to accomplish it. Honestly, without having to do the pitch for this, I don't know if I ever would've really made up my mind, right up until I had to record the thing!
As for my refined topic, in a nutshell, it's as follows - my podcast, titled "Humanity 2.0: The Bionic Evolution", is going to track (in brief) the progression of health-related nanotechnology, engineered organs and full-body transplants from science fiction to reality, and hear comments from the general student body and a robotics professor on the York University campus in order to answer these basic questions: What happens to humankind if and when the science fiction of a bionic human becomes reality, and mortality becomes more of an option than a fact? Is there, or should there be a line drawn on these kinds of scientific advancements?
Tune in to find out!
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