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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