Do you even wonder what happens when you touch your fingers over the screen of your phone? Do you know how the grid of tiny indium-tin-oxide wires sense the nano-coulomb levels of charge of your fingers and an intelligently built system produces a Cartesian co-ordinate of the charge density which then passes through the encoder to the kernel of your handheld version of a Linux distribution which Google proudly calls Android? Do you wonder how a carefully crafted ARM CPU and even a GPU capable of rendering billions of pixels fit into the palm of your hand? Probably you don't. Probably you don't care. But its really disappointing and obvious why you don't. I don't mean to be harsh, but our ignorance is nothing but the demise of civilization.
Do we even remember where we started off as a race? In the caves, among wilderness. The only thing that has brought us to a position where we are today is our intelligence. As a species, humans have thrived though decades of endeavor to develop, to discover and to establish the world where we live today. And yet, we cannot agree to the conclusion that the meaning of being a human lies not in going backwards, not spending time and money over some virtual pleasure but in development, in progress.
The key to progress lies in the eyes of a child. The inquisitiveness, the unprecedented approach towards life. Yet, what we do is ruin their lives when we hand over the wrong stuff to them. When we teach them, the meaning of life is to become a doctor or an engineer, or to be able to bag in loads of cash. When a child seeks out to ask "how does this work?" and the only reasonable answer we can offer is that it is 'obvious' and asking too many questions is not the right way to go about life. Maybe you were or still are that child, growing now to take things as obvious. Finding meaning of life in fruitless activities or obliviously searching for one?
Do we even remember where we started off as a race? In the caves, among wilderness. The only thing that has brought us to a position where we are today is our intelligence. As a species, humans have thrived though decades of endeavor to develop, to discover and to establish the world where we live today. And yet, we cannot agree to the conclusion that the meaning of being a human lies not in going backwards, not spending time and money over some virtual pleasure but in development, in progress.
The key to progress lies in the eyes of a child. The inquisitiveness, the unprecedented approach towards life. Yet, what we do is ruin their lives when we hand over the wrong stuff to them. When we teach them, the meaning of life is to become a doctor or an engineer, or to be able to bag in loads of cash. When a child seeks out to ask "how does this work?" and the only reasonable answer we can offer is that it is 'obvious' and asking too many questions is not the right way to go about life. Maybe you were or still are that child, growing now to take things as obvious. Finding meaning of life in fruitless activities or obliviously searching for one?