I have been a late comer on Orkut, on Face book and on Twitter. I have been slow in adopting and adapting to technology and slower still in getting all starry-eyed about gizmos. Talk to me about the latest mobiles in the market, new age gaming consols, poking or pinching on social networking sites…I am not your audience.
I do feel sometimes that I will be left behind very quickly and people around me will be talking stuff that will remind me of the Sin ø Cos ø days in school or worst still the Econometrics classes in college which they said were important but kept me wondering if they are required to lead a normal life. I do know however that this is different.
My problem is that I am a thinker. I don’t have to sit like Rodin’s ‘Thinking Man’ to do the thinking..I can do it anywhere, any time. And that is the problem really. I get lost.
We would be barely 5 minutes in a “let me update you” lesson by a well meaning friend or ‘you need to know this’ session by my frustrated husband and I am lost. I am lost thinking about something that came up in the discussion and while am pretty good at putting up a face as if I am absorbing every piece of techno-jargon being bombarded at me..in reality I would have turned my mental jammer on and other than the sound of people talking..I am not listening at all.
“You M-O-R-O-N”.. my brother says.
I need help. I need to get into some kind of rehab to make me more acceptable in society. My parents told me I have to be honest, polite, wise, and friendly, have good manners, study well etc etc to be accepted by society. This was in the 80’s. And I did everything to become the quintessential good being that they coached me to be.
Now I am being told that if I do not adapt to the changes that Technology brings forth then all that I have toiled for in the last 30 years to become acceptable in the society will be in vain.
I need help. I need rehab. I need someone to tune my mind so that I not only understand the techno-babble but also shut my brain from deliberating on useless issues….
…issues like how long will it be before this super-human looking and sounding app is replaced by a super-duper human looking and sounding app.
..issues like how many lives can be changed if even 1% of the money we spend on these devises gets siphoned to the poorer countries.
I need help to shut down my system to prevent it from wondering how much plastic is added to planet earth every time a new technology makes existing gadgets obsolete!
I hear someone saying... "stop it - YOU M-O-R-O-N!!!"
1 comment:
Hi,
This is for the first time that i am posting my comments on a blog. Like you i am late adopter of technology atleast when it comes to connecting with people online. To me role of technology was always confined to understanding the impact of ERP on the operations of the business.
So why did i choose to use technology for social networking??? The answer is simple understand my customers better, and undertstand what are triggers that can drive consumerism in globalized world.
I was reading your post saying "TECH ... No". I feel human innovation and creativity has led to revolutions. Like Industrial Revolution led to mass production of goods, capital revolution which followed and invested in huge capacities, sales and marketing revolution led the way to sell these products. The IT revolution from 90's till date has focussed on ways to improve the systems and processes in the way we do our routine activities which will result in savings and most of the companies in the old economy sector have realized this potential by saving tons of money by implementing state of the art IT infrastructure.
Technologies in the 2000's are focusssing on c2c models where people can interact on one on one basis. The sustainability of these models is a big question mark, but these technologies hold enormous potential in understanding customers better.Probably using these tools i will be able to tell in future how many times does my cutomer brush in a day, how many times in a year does he buy clothes, how many times in span of 5 years will he change his car,...etc.
So to conclude its an evolutionary process where one revolution takes the baton from other.And its upto you whether or not you want to be part of this revolution or evolution.If you feel adopting a new technology will improve your productivity at home and work place go ahead with it, because it gives you more time to spend with your loved ones.
And finally coming to the most fashionable word of 21st Century on "Green Living", a new wave of revolution has already begun on green technologies which are focussing on creating materials, technologies and engineering products that will have minimal or zero impact on environment. Probably you should join bunch of people who working on this revolution and may be you will be become much more visible and visionary to people around you.
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