Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.
- Albert Einstein (probably)
Technology is
for a purpose – We live in an extremely advanced world today and just thinking
about all the technologies that exist, forget acquiring of knowledge all of them,
is something of a daunting task. So, how to start dating the technology? Well,
I don’t know!! Probably a step to nowhere – but what is a technology? Each technology
is born for a purpose and continues to live and evolve only till it continues
to serve the purpose. If you want to know a technology, know its purpose and if
you want to create one, find a purpose.
Approaching technology
– Stealth technology in fighter aircrafts, Stem cells in biotechnology, Large
Hadron collider in atomic physics, artificial intelligence in computer
software, hyperloop in transportation are just some of names of what is happening
in the technology sector. If you want to know a technology, understand what it
does and more importantly, what it can’t do, yet. The amount of investment gone
into technologies is humongous and the level of complexity is beyond
comprehension of the vast majority. In line with the “Pareto principle”,
probably it’s time to devise the “Super Pareto principle” now – “1% of
people handle 99% of complexity of this world”.
Only extreme
actions can lead to extreme results – Being a software professional for quite
a few years, I believe I am enough educated in terms of technology but for
sure, nowhere close to understanding the best of the breed technologies. Living
in the cocoon of the profession is neither going to take me any closer. Knowing
how the technology does what it does is like knowing how the god created the
world – it’s extreme. It is the first mammoth step to falling in love with
technology.
Loving is
devoting – A technology is not as easy as making friends or loving your
spouse. The shear complexity of the technological advancement makes it
incomprehensible. Loving technology is probably like Thomas Edison inventing a
bulb. To create a technology then probably is equivalent to landing on Mars. But,
what’s life for, if not for attempting magic. The intelligence needs to be expanded,
devoted and probably exploded to fall in love, this time with technology.
Nicely written..but as I look at it Technology Stems from some of the Physics concepts that some human being wants to rein in for some of the Purpose..and as the human start 'domesticating' that crude technology the humans start becoming more and more reliant on that technology until the point that they forget that it is humans who invented them..take any example..the wheel, the fire, the stream engine..it has grown to an extent that we now demonise them for the 'advancement' that we injected in them..we forget that they are our creation and we had some intention of starting them..to cut it short..I would say it is the purpose of every user that matters..no technology is bad like no student is stupid..it just that we don't know how to make the best 'intended' use of it..thanks for your article..keep it up..
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