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This era of scientific surge has made our efforts simple to have an absolute control over anything and everything outside us. Things happen in just a push of a button, and even more further with the invent of sensors there is no need to push with the finger. Thanks to sensors doors close and open automatically and there is flush of water as soon as one stands in front of the wash basin. This technological insurgency makes me wonder where this all would lead us to. Will the human invented technology start to control his life or would it just start extenuating as we have seen in nature that which reaches the peak scales down. One cannot say if the progression followed by insurrection is cyclic or linear but a little awareness in the changing scenario can provide a significant hint of what is to hit the future.
Scientific surge has been a boon for mankind but meaningless technological insurgency has created havoc in the system by going against nature. spirituality and Science are the two essential structures that have supported humanity. If Religion is the recipe spirituality is the savour. If science is the song technology is the tempo. The flavor and the tempo provide meaning to the recipe and song respectively. Science is a discovery of fundamental information of how things work and technology is practical application of that information. Spirituality is a journey of knowing our inner Self and religion guides us to embark that inward journey.
Off late the direction of technological insurgency is making us oblivious to the basic structure of science that is to protect nature and ourselves. Likewise religion is also contaminated by outrageous and dogmatic thoughts which have distorted the true purpose of spirituality. There is no doubt that technology is providing us a lot of things but we should admit that it is taking a lot away from us as well. It is true that it is helping us get more things under our control at the same time it is making us less controlled. The incessant pursuit of technology has outshine the inquisitiveness of mankind and hence, pursuit of science. Religion also has made mankind sway away from spirituality as it is providing a lot and at the same time taken away the very essence.
With such thought I wonder, are we on the progressive ladder towards a path of glorious civilization or a doomed one? It is hard to visualize the future but with little interpolation of swelling technological insurgency and weakening spiritual quest it would not be an exaggeration to say that we are losing our own conscience in imparting intelligence to materials rather than having them with us. The Internet, E-mail, Twitter, Face book, whatsApp? which were invented to assist the multitasking mankind is unnecessarily been blamed. Why should the technology be blamed if we have failed to use them for our advantage? If the technology has to soar high like the kite in the sky there has to be a string called spiritual thought to manoeuvre it…..am I right???
This era of scientific surge has made our efforts simple to have an absolute control over anything and everything outside us. Things happen in just a push of a button, and even more further with the invent of sensors there is no need to push with the finger. Thanks to sensors doors close and open automatically and there is flush of water as soon as one stands in front of the wash basin. This technological insurgency makes me wonder where this all would lead us to. Will the human invented technology start to control his life or would it just start extenuating as we have seen in nature that which reaches the peak scales down. One cannot say if the progression followed by insurrection is cyclic or linear but a little awareness in the changing scenario can provide a significant hint of what is to hit the future.
Scientific surge has been a boon for mankind but meaningless technological insurgency has created havoc in the system by going against nature. spirituality and Science are the two essential structures that have supported humanity. If Religion is the recipe spirituality is the savour. If science is the song technology is the tempo. The flavor and the tempo provide meaning to the recipe and song respectively. Science is a discovery of fundamental information of how things work and technology is practical application of that information. Spirituality is a journey of knowing our inner Self and religion guides us to embark that inward journey.
Off late the direction of technological insurgency is making us oblivious to the basic structure of science that is to protect nature and ourselves. Likewise religion is also contaminated by outrageous and dogmatic thoughts which have distorted the true purpose of spirituality. There is no doubt that technology is providing us a lot of things but we should admit that it is taking a lot away from us as well. It is true that it is helping us get more things under our control at the same time it is making us less controlled. The incessant pursuit of technology has outshine the inquisitiveness of mankind and hence, pursuit of science. Religion also has made mankind sway away from spirituality as it is providing a lot and at the same time taken away the very essence.
With such thought I wonder, are we on the progressive ladder towards a path of glorious civilization or a doomed one? It is hard to visualize the future but with little interpolation of swelling technological insurgency and weakening spiritual quest it would not be an exaggeration to say that we are losing our own conscience in imparting intelligence to materials rather than having them with us. The Internet, E-mail, Twitter, Face book, whatsApp? which were invented to assist the multitasking mankind is unnecessarily been blamed. Why should the technology be blamed if we have failed to use them for our advantage? If the technology has to soar high like the kite in the sky there has to be a string called spiritual thought to manoeuvre it…..am I right???
I think it is that saying: Technology is at the same time blessing and curse.
ReplyDeletePretty much like any other tool.
Small story: Guy calls 911 from mobile after vehicle crash, and that call saves his life. Or does it? Because reason he had a crash was - he was texting SMS-es from his Mobile and that provoked the crash.
Makes you think.
Very well said one can use technology to his advantage or disadvantage .... Thank you Mario Semialjac Sir :):):):):):):)
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