World is moving fast, as fast as sometimes
I feel my head spinning. Every day one
and other technologies are constantly becoming obsolete by one or other new
technologies. Dynamicism is at its zenith and everything is in it’s engulf. Rate
of technological progress has far exceeded the rate of human population growth.
So, are we at the height of civilization,
or as we say height of renaissance or age of enlightenment?
Let me define the word enlightenment, of
course as per my own definition. Enlightening is a beautiful word and it has
ability to give a beautiful meaning to one’s existence. An enlightened human is
a complete human being with complete cognizance of his/her surrounding and
ability to cope with it effectively keeping in mind of every macro and micro life
existed in planet. Is today’s technocratism leading to us to that?
Since the time of Darwin mankind has known
the secret of adaptism. Adaptation has become the buzzword and has been the
matter of pride for mankind. But in the subsequent 250 years, concept of
adaption was slowly replaced by concept of alteration. Alteration is the
buzzword today – if we can’t adapt, we alter. If we can’t cope up with nature we
alter the nature itself. Technological progress, genetic modification,
destruction of natural habitat, examples are numerous.
When we talk about impending danger on
human race (only human race actually, other species are encouraged to preserve
just to facilitated existence of human race, i.e. to maintain balance in
ecosystem) by global warming and numerous other reason, we only talk about
macro facilitator like logging, mining, infrastructure etc etc. We never talk
about the micro development in our life which is actually leading to these
macro reasons. We never talk about everyday small small technological invention
or innovation. We hail those technocracies as they make our life simpler. Writing a letter was replaced by mobile
phone. Not only time taken in communication was greatly reduced it also relieved
the pain inflicted by pen on delicate hand of human being. Pen is replaced by keypad or keyboard which
was faster and much easier. Very soon
human hand stared tiring out with keypad and then came the touch screen. Why
push a button to type, just touch it. Several micro second of human life was
saved by switching from pushing to touching. Now we are tired of touching to,
our delicate hand is gradually becoming incapable of doing that, so we are
coming up next with smart phone which can understand from our gesture what we
want, after some years they would be capable to compile our mind directly and
work accordingly. We don’t even have to blink our eyes. Some time it’s just
dreadful to think that where it is going to stop? Earlier we used our brain to
adapt ourselves to our environment, but now we are slave of our brain and
working tirelessly to face altercation with our environment.
We have to know where the stopping point
is. The much talked invention and innovation have to have some limit. And that
limit should be defined by their usefulness in our ecosystem. Today millions of
human being is involved in this mindless innovation in order to make human life
much simpler. But this is resulting in making our life much complex and thrusting
us to a kind of dark age where everything would be beyond our
comprehension. When nature shows its
wrath, we are as helpless as those cave man of 12000 BC with more damage which
could ever been inflicted in history of mankind. How technology has made it
better. Instead of participating in mindless technological race (Google, Microsoft,
IBM etc etc) why aren't we putting our energy into real human problem - the problem of disaster, suffering, poverty, population, habitat loss, species extintion, again the list is very long.
I might
sound like a doomsday predictor moron but we are at the juncture of falling
into a dark pit from where it would be near impossible for human race to
recover. We have to say enough is
enough. We have thought enough about our own comfort and development. We have
achieved enough. Now it’s the time to think about those who have been
constantly neglected in 10000 years history of mankind. Now it’s time to go
back. Now it’s time to go back to nature and nurture it. We have graduated from
the college of development long back and forgotten all our lessons. It’s time
to go back to school to learn the basic.
