A World Without Touch? Future Of Touchless Technology | Why It Matters 5 | Full Episode

Heightened standards of hygiene amidst the COVID-19 pandemic have pushed us all into a touchless world. From touchless cars and lifts, to haptics in mid-air, host Joshua Lim investigates what’s at the cutting-edge of touchless technology to find out: How can we harness it to help keep surface transmission low, what are its future applications in a post-pandemic “new normal”, and what are the social ramifications in a world without touch?

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About WHY IT MATTERS: Technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate. It is transforming the world we live in faster than ever before. Our inquisitive host Joshua Lim is back on a mission to sniff out the emerging trends and technologies, to ask the questions you have always wanted to ask, and some you have never even thought about.
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[dpp]

I like new technology, for me it's something fascinating, but at the same time, it's deeply disturbing the fact that society invest more money on this than on research for the most common diseases like dementia, cancer, hearing loss, idk you name it.

[thomastan]

Have it arrive in Singapore. Will try it out.

[dlwabbit]

but he closed the door of the car with his hand! 🤣

[cheldonsooper]

The agar plate can’t fit adult palm size, so some people press their fingers some people their palms. Thus area in contact is not consistent.

[ericphan]

This is what I advocated for a long time but the stupid department of veteran want me keep contact with them so they control my saving and force me to use phone and email so I can not leave to far away from stupid economy

[elizabethfw]

There is just something about human hands doing it. So no

[virgilwilliams]

Oh stop being a worry wart. Life is for the living.