“Humanity
is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons”
R.
Buckminster Fuller
Technology
is not just about having a high-configured mobile with unlimited
bandwidth; it’s beyond, much beyond. There was a time when people
craved for acquiring knowledge. The goal was achieved by lots of
efforts, travel, age and places. The knowledge gained by them was
passed on to the next generations through teachings or documents.
Times change so do the ideals and theories and doctrines and minds.
Technology is something which is created by us, the humans. Minds of
people who are focused and determined in specific areas of interest
do invent things; things which would be labeled as the craziest and
most demonic at that point of time. These specific people bore it
all; when they were called crazy, foolish and mad. Least would those
people who mocked them knew the future would be controlled by those
inventions.
As the
time progresses, human race would expand their thought process, raise
their bars, widen their horizons over the universe. We have
progressed in every aspect of luxuries and sophistication.
What once was termed as impossible is a reality today. As they say,
necessity is the mother of invention, which is absolutely true;
inventions were based out of the basic needs of humanity.
Technology
is supposed to be aiding the humans and be controlled by humans. We
have been versioning the sophistication leaving behind the
basic human needs.
We were
lazy to go to the television to change channel or volume, so we
invented remote which made us stationary and causing obesity; as a
solution for obesity we invented treadmills. Have we invented obesity
here?
Our
busy lives forced us to invent foods which could be cooked and
consumed in few minutes. Now we debate about the diseases caused by
these. Have we invented cancers and ulcers here?
We
invented refrigerators for storing food items. Now we debate about
the damage caused to the ozone layer.
We
invented the social media apps to share our opinions and connect
people. We use these apps for trolling, abusing, stalking, hurting
people and spreading false news and rumors across. Have we invented
tools for fuelling hatred and invading privacy?
We have
invented the fusion of hydrogen nuclei as a source of energy, but
this knowledge led us to develop bombs. Have we invented tools for
genocide?
We
invented mobiles for sophisticated communications and access of data,
we complain about our partners not spending time and getting glued to
their n-inch-screen
virtual worlds. Have we invented relationship breakers and spoilers?
We
invented bath showers for luxury. We complain about scarcity of
water.
We
invented high speed vehicles. We complain about the safety.
We have
vehicles to reach Mars. We don't have transportation modes in many
villages.
We cut
the trees for urbanisation.
We complain about no trees and environmental issues.
We
invent robots which work like human. We fire people from companies.
We
invented plastic. We plan campaigns for a plastic free world.
Technology
has two faces – business and humanitarian. “Assumption
and a global practice is a technology which is for a useful cause but
does not generate revenue is never a technology and is never
encouraged”
This must change.
What
are we going to give to our future generations? Mobiles with 1
TB RAM? High speed internet services? Voice controlled homes? Fancy
amphibian flying cars? Drones to play?
1
of 8 people is dying because of hunger
1
in 9 people worldwide do not have access to safe and clean drinking
water
Half
of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from a
water-related disease
More
than a million deaths due to road accidents
28000
deaths caused by terrorism
60
million children do not have access to education
240
millions in India alone do not have electricity facilities as of
2016 statistics
It's
high time to focus on technology to have nutritious, energetic, fresh
food; build homes for everyone; get cheaper medication; to
generate cheaper and quality solar and wind energies for zero
pollution; which spreads peace and harmony across the world.
Let
us take a pledge to use the knowledge and build technology for a
better human life.
This article was published in Q2 bulletin - 2017, Lore Software Solutions.
