Have any of you realized that we are in a transformation period?
I remember studying about industrial revolution in my 10th standard Social Science book(Matric'ians and CBSE'ians please excuse). At that time, I imagined that it would be like some typhoon or earth quake which all together changed everything.
But later realized, it was a slow phenomenon. And you know what? We are also part of such transition.
And this transition is so fast that we don't have time to notice.
Wow-o-wow I will not do the usual 'what was there before 10 year' comparison. Instead you do it. We all know how fast we migrated from monochrome cellphones to touch screen smart phones. Monochrome desktops to HD display laptops. Film projectors to Digital projectors. List is too long... This is way too fast...
My one year old niece knows how to unlock a touch screen mobile and play a sound clip.
My friend's 2 year old boy is very fluent with iPad2. Schools market themselves that they have smart classes.
Every office [including few government] and house are getting air conditioned. More dependent on electricity, Inverters are popular. Again the list is too long....
Can we call these a growth? Average income of an Indian increased up to 4 times. Number of middle class families are increasing. Is this an healthy thing happening around me?
Is the growth Upward or Downward? Time will answer [but we may not be there when it answers]
But we can be proud that we are sure part of some remarkable reform or revolution(We leave it to the future generation to name the reform).
I remember studying about industrial revolution in my 10th standard Social Science book(Matric'ians and CBSE'ians please excuse). At that time, I imagined that it would be like some typhoon or earth quake which all together changed everything.
But later realized, it was a slow phenomenon. And you know what? We are also part of such transition.
And this transition is so fast that we don't have time to notice.
Wow-o-wow I will not do the usual 'what was there before 10 year' comparison. Instead you do it. We all know how fast we migrated from monochrome cellphones to touch screen smart phones. Monochrome desktops to HD display laptops. Film projectors to Digital projectors. List is too long... This is way too fast...
My one year old niece knows how to unlock a touch screen mobile and play a sound clip.
My friend's 2 year old boy is very fluent with iPad2. Schools market themselves that they have smart classes.
Every office [including few government] and house are getting air conditioned. More dependent on electricity, Inverters are popular. Again the list is too long....
Can we call these a growth? Average income of an Indian increased up to 4 times. Number of middle class families are increasing. Is this an healthy thing happening around me?
Is the growth Upward or Downward? Time will answer [but we may not be there when it answers]
But we can be proud that we are sure part of some remarkable reform or revolution(We leave it to the future generation to name the reform).
Sorry might...some of them we can call as reforms i.e on the technology front.and many of them are a bubble(might be a soap bubble).we dont know when they might burst.As you said we might not be there to witness the bubble as when it bursts.
ReplyDelete#food advancement / IT jobs / fast food joints / barotta salna - n no of new diseases.obesity,heart attacks, diabetics ,blood pressure and we can name a lot.
#technology advancement - cars/remote controls/latest gadgets have made us more lazy then ever before...this also takes us to point no 1
#average income has increased up to 4 times.even more then that.but of no use.My dad with his 4000rs salary till 2004 was able to build a house 30 years back.But we IT folks earning 4-10 times more are not able to buy anything on own money except loans/credit cards.
I would say our lives are getting complicated when we keep looking for machines that would "make our life easier"!
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