Look around what’s going on…? It’s a corporate world where everyone is just pulling other’s leg. Now let us take a look over the different facets of the life. Whether take an instance of the politics, education, aristocrats, bourgeois, traders, organizations, employers or employees everyone is just doing his/her business.
In this gaiety of thoughts, a good cerebration over the problem and a perfect planning for achieving the optimistic upshots is needed. A great embodiment of this may be taken as of Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO Warren Buffet who is known as Oracle of Omaha and whose every step is followed by millions of investors in the stocks and shares market. This lofty and kudos is just achieved by him by taking good witty thoughts and decisions. He has never invested in IT companies. If we move to other business mogul Ratan Tata who foresights the future plebeian needs of the customers and introduces the ‘common man car NANO’ and also looking forward to introduce the scheme ‘flats on only 5 lakhs INR.
A salesman tries to convince and coax his customers through his blandishments and makes his way. A leader addresses his/her audience through long speeches and claims; doesn’t matter he/she is a demagogue or a true leader.
So, the cardinal point of the fact is to foresee the future. All the great moguls have this trait and make it as a succor to undergird their business. So whether it is marketing, management, infrastructure, development, technology or anything else we must bring the ideas of future in our present. So…look what’s next………
It’s been a decade now since Internet and Cell phones actually started becoming “essentials”. Catch hold of a school student (The “Gen X” league) who hails from any cosmopolitan habitat and try explaining to him that life did exist before Cell phones and Internet and you would probably see either a blank look (at best) or a disdainful look which actually makes you feel like scum between the toes.
People feel naked, vulnerable, if for a day they are without their cell phones, if they can’t go online to check their e-mails or post messages in a social networking site. True, life had become convenient, tickets on the web, mail on the web, counseling on the web, sex on the web!! But somewhere aren’t we overdoing it and losing the human essence to things? Wasn’t life comparatively simpler before these actually started becoming essentials in our lives? Owing to my age, I have had the privilege of witnessing the start to a new era and also the end to innocence and simplicity.
Let’s roll back 20 years when Cell Phones were not available; Internet was only a Defense Services communication mechanism. You could walk into a friend’s, a neighbors’, an acquaintance’s house without fixing an appointment or announcing your arrival and people will still greet you warmly. Can you even think of doing that today with your next door neighbor, leave aside an acquaintance? One can argue that Cellular service is a great boon in the time of an emergency but let me put this question- were there no emergencies before the advent of cellular services?
Internet- the greatest invention in decades!! True, but is it not being misused? When was the last time any of us actually took out the time to pen down a personal note the old fashioned way to a friend or family? Kids would rather spend hours on the computer playing games, chatting, blogging than being out with other kids and playing. I remember my childhood, it was a happy one where the sole purpose was to complete my homework and get outside to play a sport with the kids in the neighbor hood. Did we have to bother about the obsolete configuration of computers every 6 months due to which we could not play the latest game? No. Yes, we did not have the exposure but we had privilege of being innocent.
The impact of technology has if at all only complicated the life of a commoner who is now thoroughly confused between the two worlds. Peer pressure to possess and know the about the latest gadgets & technology versus leading a carefree innocent life. Life has caught on a pace but is that doing anyone any good? With heart Attacks at 30, Obesity becoming and epidemic, marriages being annulled in 15 days, I guess we were better off without “Connecting People”. Call of the hour- The Return to Innocence.
