The 21st century has already seen patterns of human extinction thanks to ‘man-made’ technology. With the rate at which technology is evolving, the day is not far where robots will be the only non-‘living’ things that walk the earth.
Technology has no doubt made an immense impact on our lives, but the purpose of technology is to enhance our life and not replace it. We have computers working for us, replacing manual jobs, automated machines running to complete tedious and monotonous work. All this is fair, but the problem arises when we sit in the lap of luxury of technology, when we take advantage of the technology at our disposal. People often misuse technology for selfish reasons and that’s the biggest challenge and danger technocrats face.
Invention and innovation are inevitable, but what is not is the excessive use of it. What defines ‘us becoming slaves to technology’ is our use of it in daily life. For example: Using a calculator to add up less than 5-6 numbers or using a motor vehicle to go to a nearby vendor. These normal tasks do not require any sort of man-made technology, but God given brains and legs. If we need technology for such trivial tasks, we soon will make ourselves slaves to technology. Therefore, the more sensible thing to do is to use technology when and only when needed, and use technology in important tasks where human life is subject to danger and the only solution to a problem is technology.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
It's In You!
Leadership is defined as the ability to motivate and lead a team of people to perform a task efficiently in a specific time frame. From this definition we can get two qualities that is the ability to motivate and the ability to lead, but there is much more to leadership. A lot of people misinterpret leadership with dominance, which is not true. If a person can cohesively drive his team to complete a task, he is a leader in his own way. Leadership is the art of making the impossible ‘I-M-possible’.
History shows that leadership is the pioneer quality which has driven many movements and initiatives to a fairy-tale ending. Mahatma Gandhi was a leader for our national movement for Independence. He used simple but yet effective techniques to bind the people of India to fight the British for Independence.
For every activity there is a need for a leader to give direction to the team in order to keep with the objectives of the task. A team without a leader is the same as a ship without a captain hovering around the ‘cape of good-hope’. It is obvious to say that the team and the ship are sure to sink. Therefore, a leader is critical in guiding a team to the finish line.
Leadership is an inborn talent which is difficult to acquire, although not impossible. Learned people are not necessarily leaders but what makes them a leader is how they communicate with people and how best they achieve their tasks in hand utilizing their scarce resources.
History shows that leadership is the pioneer quality which has driven many movements and initiatives to a fairy-tale ending. Mahatma Gandhi was a leader for our national movement for Independence. He used simple but yet effective techniques to bind the people of India to fight the British for Independence.
For every activity there is a need for a leader to give direction to the team in order to keep with the objectives of the task. A team without a leader is the same as a ship without a captain hovering around the ‘cape of good-hope’. It is obvious to say that the team and the ship are sure to sink. Therefore, a leader is critical in guiding a team to the finish line.
Leadership is an inborn talent which is difficult to acquire, although not impossible. Learned people are not necessarily leaders but what makes them a leader is how they communicate with people and how best they achieve their tasks in hand utilizing their scarce resources.
Bad News Women... Online Shopping is here!
With the world, now at your desktop or rather at your ‘palm’s top, shopping has never been easier than this. Online shopping has reached levels where even properties are transacted wirelessly, which is what online shopping is suppose to do in the first place and has achieved this successfully. Venture Capitalists are always interested in companies which offer products and services online, and this has help realize many ideas into profitable ventures. Although many critics believe that e-commerce and m-commerce are just extensions of “mall shopping”, little do they realize the bulldozing effect that online shopping has created. Some might justify their point by saying that no one is so desperate to buy a t-shirt or a computer over the phone, but that’s not even the point. M-commerce can be used to book tickets for a film, to pay for parking, and things that need to be done when you’re on the go. If fraud is the concern for many, statistics show that online fraud is much less in comparison to shop lifting and other related offences.
However, these are excuses and reasons for being pessimistic and taking a 1939 approach to the advances made in the 21st century.
If companies like Amazon, e-bay, and other shopping portals can make big money out of this and grow at a faster rate than companies with traditional outlook, there is enough reason to believe that all will be done with. Also, if there was no online shopping, there wouldn’t be AdWords, and if there were no AdWords, how would Google generate revenue?
However, these are excuses and reasons for being pessimistic and taking a 1939 approach to the advances made in the 21st century.
If companies like Amazon, e-bay, and other shopping portals can make big money out of this and grow at a faster rate than companies with traditional outlook, there is enough reason to believe that all will be done with. Also, if there was no online shopping, there wouldn’t be AdWords, and if there were no AdWords, how would Google generate revenue?
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