Oh! we are so lucky to be in an era of quickly completing our tasks. Thanks to those innovative developers who have made our life easy. We are saving lot of time by using these products. Be it Excel, Word, PowerPoint. We are able to maintain, update or delete records. We can quickly get reports of whatever we want. Our data is so organized.
Are we really saving time? When compared to the people in 60s to the people of 21st century. They had more time when compared to us. They had enough time even after using manual registers to maintain records. Is technology simplifying or making it more complex?
Time less consumed to carry out an operation cannot mean that the operation is simple. It also depends on the expertise of the individual who is carrying out that operation. However, the point to notice here is "Are we moving towards simplicity?"
Time consumption has increased because the complex operations got easy and people have increased number of operations. Consider talking to your family a decade back. You used to call your wife once in a day while at work when u had to go to the receptionist to make a call. Or you use to call once in a week or once in a month when u were abroad. Now, things are simple, you are just a text away from your family or friends. So, you contact them more often, maybe 10 times a day. This consumes your time. Though the technology has made it simple but you are using it more often.
We are now habituated to forget things. We forget to say something on call, we quickly call them back. We forget to carry the important file to office, we download from cloud and print it. We forget to complete the presentation and we complete that on our way to office. We don't remember birthdays anymore, it is the Outlook calendar or Facebook that reminds us about the birthday. We don't remember any telephone numbers, it is all there in phone book.
Technology is simplifying our lives, only if we know how to use it rather than abusing it.
Are we really saving time? When compared to the people in 60s to the people of 21st century. They had more time when compared to us. They had enough time even after using manual registers to maintain records. Is technology simplifying or making it more complex?
Time less consumed to carry out an operation cannot mean that the operation is simple. It also depends on the expertise of the individual who is carrying out that operation. However, the point to notice here is "Are we moving towards simplicity?"
Time consumption has increased because the complex operations got easy and people have increased number of operations. Consider talking to your family a decade back. You used to call your wife once in a day while at work when u had to go to the receptionist to make a call. Or you use to call once in a week or once in a month when u were abroad. Now, things are simple, you are just a text away from your family or friends. So, you contact them more often, maybe 10 times a day. This consumes your time. Though the technology has made it simple but you are using it more often.
We are now habituated to forget things. We forget to say something on call, we quickly call them back. We forget to carry the important file to office, we download from cloud and print it. We forget to complete the presentation and we complete that on our way to office. We don't remember birthdays anymore, it is the Outlook calendar or Facebook that reminds us about the birthday. We don't remember any telephone numbers, it is all there in phone book.
Technology is simplifying our lives, only if we know how to use it rather than abusing it.
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