Technology, we love it so much. It has reached a state that we want to wear it. From the smartphones that we stroke and seek the moment we wake up to the best travel companion that could exist the Kindle. Technology is all around us. Radical innovations and the Diffusion of Innovation theory has paved way for progressive thinkers in this world. From the Henry Ford's to the Pranav Mistry's the world of technology has evolved to address one and only question. To simplify utility.
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The assembly lines, the Just in time operations, the smart phone, the sixth sense technology all help us simplify the mundane tasks which take up time. However, in recent times has innovations in utility really progressed at the rate it was once progressing.? the question has been haunting me from a few days now. The utility of a phone which emerged to become a handheld computer in all of us was dreamt by the great steve jobs. They say great minds think alike. However, what I feel is that great minds don't think but they visualize in models. Words convolute us pin us down to a constant but as a model, it is a flowing variable which metamorphosis's into any beautiful character you want connecting, considering any variable that determines the outputs.
But technology which should be helping us in creating, visualizing these variables are instead creating a environment where in we ask and understand yet we don't remember or comprehend anything. As the data plan in my phone is the only thing that matters. None of us know how to read a map, none of us know how to do research without the help of the internet. With the advent of wearables and the radical innovations that are progressing. The beauty of hardships, of knowing, of hands on experiences are being lost. We have more charging cables than books. We have more apps than the words in our vocabulary. Is this progression? that might be subjective, are we loosing the beauty of simplicity in the quest for extremity? only time can tell.
Until the next one, live small, think big.
