No matter how technologically advanced we may have become in this country, the debate revolving around it, is still very much the same- stale as it was before: the benefits of using technology are simply not translating into actual goals.
Technology is an indispensable force – without a doubt. Therefore, it would be stupid to ignore its significance. Technology is brushing your teeth, zapping the mosquito, shaving off your beard, helping you do your homework, cheating your way through math, using an app, although don’t do much of that– but yes, that’s always on the table.
The point of the matter, is that in this country, there are so many homeless, can technology provide them with a home; so many hungry – can technology provide them with food; so many in need of a hearing ear, can technology provide them with someone to hear. Other than money being the rider on which this happy seal is running – flapping hands in the front and all the way to the back – how else can technology help us. Very tongue-in-the-cheek, isn’t it? But that’s the truth.
Everything riding on the phone; yet the phone being run on the money; which has to be earned. Can anybody find the madness here? And how can nobody see it, if they can.
Talking to people, is talking to anybody, “Sab keh do,” “Connecting people,” these should be the motto for life, for life outside the phone, mostly. More to do, in the real life.
That is the part of technology I fail to understand. Jobs, employment is all great. But riding on the sentiment to stay connected with people should be done with those one is physically closest to.
Since when did asking for directions on the road become a problem that had to be solved using technology – that an app had to be created?
Psychologically these people are banking on man’s desire to be isolated from others – or is it to attain a feeling of being ‘empowered’ – and, interestingly, connected – both are contrasting basic human needs. It seems that man wants to be connected, but only to a selected few. Also, the desire to find out information, in that they are connected to a neutral ‘being’ that being the app or the phone.
It is interesting how a play of psychology is keeping the mouse toeing in the line and marching ahead. Psychology in technology or propaganda, one is not sure what to call it. But if one is to do anything about it, one is sure to start by appreciating the importance of technology and its usage, and start using it that way.
A hammer is a hammer, because it is a hammer. The technology of the hammer has got more to do with what it does – the hammer.
