Wednesday, April 1, 2015

REAL TIME TECHNOLOGY AND AN IMMOBILE WORLD: agree ?

The real-time technologies enabled by computers, cellphones, the internet and similar digital tools would make the world go static when everyone gets digitally qualified and able to get their things done from a distance.

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this prediction? 

The world has come a long way falling back on distance-and-time-defying technologies accessed by wearable and portable digital devises. If things go on like this, coupled with greater digital qualifications across, to a larger extent, the world would go immobile.  40 words

Getting things done from a distance has been on for quite some time and the extent of which is finding new levels as greater numbers of people across the world are going digitally educated. This is happening 24x7 and the day is not far when most of the people would be able to stay at their places for longer times and find almost all their necessities done; of course by technologies embedded in handsets, laptop computers and similar portable tools.

Let me substantiate my position with a couple of examples. Education as such has almost ceased to be something between teacher and student face-to-face; rather it is education from a distance.  Similarly, great many people in my place are able to take part in governance by way of electronics.

Banking, bookings tickets, paying bills, ordering wares, shopping things and even taking medical advice without moving from their cozy interiors are happening even in poorer nations. When digital qualifications find new highs, the need for moving out will come down and what we call a dynamic world would slowly give way to a static world, thought not fully.

However, there will be some areas of life where the world would need to move out. Spiritual journeys, travel for serious medical care, visiting near and dear ones, sight-seeing and the like are a few examples.


In short, if the digital revolution that is happening around the world is anything to go by, sooner than later, the world would go more and more static. A complete stand still, needless to say, will never happen no matter how big the digital explosion is going to be. 

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