Happy Days................

For nourishing the tree of our engineering life...
...as each stem and it's leaves stay long in our memories

For gifting us the sweet fruits of beautiful experiences...
...as we step into the corporate world with your gratitude

For making each moment a gift to cherish life long...
...as we depart from this world which would never return

we would like to thank each and every one who was with us
in these four most beautiful years of life

- 2k4:2k8 CSE, PVPSIT

Technology and Innovation : Where are we heading to?

"Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts, and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment."
- Wikipedia.org

An absolutely intelligent definition from the open source knowledge community but as they say opinions differ from person to person, so is it in my case. Let me first define the term 'Technology' in my own way:

"Any object, tool or craft which is invented for a purpose to improve or simplify life, which is supposed to be controlled by mankind, but misused by the society, sophisticates life and controls mankind is nothing but Technology."

Be it the wheel or the computer, i bet, you cannot name even a single technology which is being used in the right terms today. Walking is faster than traveling in a vehicle in Mumbai or Delhi. Meeting people in a cafe or restaurant gives so much pleasure than just scrapping in orkut. Every little change or improvement done is called as innovation today. Innovation is the most misused word of the decade. Technologists invent so many technologies today that the gadget released yesterday becomes old today.

Anyone, please tell me where are we heading to? What is that we want at the end of the day. A world so sophisticated with technology that life were nothing more than a Java Program? Who is to blame or is the blame game wrong? Are the people not using technology in the right way or are the technologists to be blamed for inventing so much of not so innovative things! Consider the very much used gadget of this decade, the cell phone. It was invented for people to stay in touch with each other. But, people remain in touch with the phone itself for so long that it is blamed for health hazards and many other problems. Every day, there is a new model of the cell phone in the market, the one released last week is old today.

I think the way technology is being used today will lead to a day where more than 50% of the oceans in this world would be filled with e-waste and my grandson would ask me to describe how a tree used to look like in the previous days.