Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Science, technology and our life


What is the most important gift of science? Science has offered many gifts to mankind. We are familiar with them; we have routinely been using them. Can you name a gift of science without which the modern civilization can not survive? Name one, only one gift. If we stop using it, the whole world would come to a standstill.

Wait please. Think for a moment. Answer it before you proceed. Close your eyes and think.

What is your answer?

It is electricity. If there is no electricity, the survival of the modern man would be jeoprdized.

Another interesting question: Which are the most essential devices or appliances today? Name just two of them. Without them, all functions of the society would be thrown out of gear. The structure of the ultra-modern civilization would collapse. Have you guessed them?

One is the time-measuring device, the other is the computer. A time-measuring device(a clock or a watch) regulates the activities and functionalities of our life - ranging from personal life to communication and transportation. A computer(now in changing technology, I would prefer to call it a computerating device) controls and propels both personal and impersonal transactions at local and global levels. How chaotic conditions could result if these two devices stop functioning all of a sudden! (Thank God! That can never happen!)

Science and technology has become such a part of our life that we take it for granted. The civilization is growing more and more dependent on them. And so is human existence. We have gone too far. And now we have to drag on and on. There seems to be no turning point. Have you thought about this?

Aerial View


I am on this side of an object.

You are on that side of the object.

What you see is different; what I see is different.

Your view is different from that of mine as long as our angles are different.

Let there be differences. But cann't our views have something in common?

Let us try. Let us rise from this plane, to a higher level.

Let us have an aerial view.