"Technology Overload"

Technology/Information Overload

                     "Technology has failed to simplify our lives." Don't you agree? Just look around you and see it for yourself. Maybe you are contended the way technology brings all the luxuries and information just at your door step. Oh yeah! Easy life...the word 'E' or 'e' is the prefix for anything that has to do with Information and Technology today...to name some...e-governance, e-banking, e-learning...etc...etc...etc. Now, you might say, why, this is not bad; it makes life easy, fast, comfortable and productive! Give a high five for that! Yes to technology! You see even top enterprises and firms put up toasts to technology! They say lets celebrate. The limelight is enjoyed by technology! Of course, it is technology that is doing all the things... Now, man has less work to do...everything is just a 'click' away. Snap! just like that!

                      Well, I have no intention of accusing technology in any way, after all I owe it to technology for allowing me to share my thought and express it in this way so that all of  you can read it and understand it. Again, here's to technology...cheers!

                      But people, with this column, I would like to share some of the challenges I have faced after my encounter with technology. Which I think, in many instances, you might have personally faced it too...at some point or the other. Technology is not bad in anyway: but I want to put it this way...Technology has brought about information overload, and made men's life all the more miserable, confused and restless, despite of it being created to bring comfort and luxury to men.

                     Just for instance, I had to struggle or rather a debate was on within my mind as to whether I should use simply black color or other color for my text, whether I should add background color to my text, which font to use, which size will suit my text....so on and so forth. Well if the page layout is not that attractive, now it's my fault not technology...why? Because I had too many information at my desk that I was so perplexed and confused...rather indecisive as to make the right choice. Now that is called 'technology overload'. I've had my share of struggle with technology today. That was just a tip of the iceberg!

                      Now I would like to present you some of the key features that explains as to how technology put a lot of pressure on us in many ways. I have to firstly admit that it is because of technology I have come this far, now, let me just leave aside the advantages of technology as we all know what are they. But as the topic at hand is about, let say disadvantages of technology.

                       I would like to share it in two dimensions.

Ist DIMENSION:

First, Technology, diminishes peoples ability to be effective.

Second, With technology ruling, men have lost the ability to reflect rather than just react.

Third, Technology contributes to global warming.

Fourth, Creation/invention of new chemical compounds with uncertain impact on life and health.

Fifth, Invention of weapons of Mass Destruction.

2nd DIMENSION:

Sixth, 'Over-choice'

Seventh, 'Surplus Complexity'... This one's so tempting to expound. Let me give some instances. How many of us have faced stressful situations over making the desires choice over things such as these: all those ring tones to choose  from, different themes, programs and applications, wallpaper...(hey you just have one LCD monitor or mobile screen and you have a dozens of favorite wallpapers to choose. How often to you change them?) (chuckles!). Not to mention the personal devices to be baffled with!

Eighth, Too many options: Instead of simplifying, it has rather made the work harder and complicated.

                        Well, that's how I have come up with the idea of sharing this with you all! Let me not make any concluding remarks...that's not quite necessary. I shall leave the rest to you, for you to ponder upon! 

                        At the end, technology still rocks...after all!!