Alaxander Graham Bell introduced primitive telephone to human kind. Thomas alva edison introduced electricity to us. Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, and many other scientists created many devices which made in roads and become part of human life. I'm not calling this as inventions for different reasons, which we will deal with later.
With Microsoft first thought of Smart tablet, but Apple introduced to the market a product named iPad. Smart devices include phones, pads, tablets, wearables (includes watches, glass, shoes, monitors etc) which have flooded the market, and many other devices are yet to come.
Interesting fact is Graham bell could not make calls to his mother and wife as both were deaf. However, telephone has not only provided voice communication but also shrunk the distance. Traditional phone evolved into mobile phones (several studies on with their health hazards, but not a point on discussion here), made great in roads into many individuals. Although the communication capability improved, our ability to remember the telephone number, dates, events are slowly fading away. Now a days seldom people write the phone number, instead say, "give me a missed call".
By our reliance on functions of remembers, we are avoiding to use a great feature of our brain, long term learning. This is attributed to students as well. Thankfully, in India, still these devices have not penetrated to primary schools (though some governments are trying to their best), so that writing, maths skills are still manual.
What is the objective? By using these smart devices, do we compromise on our smartness? Do you want your smart phone to alert you to say "Today is your _____ birthday"? Our relationship is just a reminder? Think about it.
Now, geo coordinate based services pop up as you travel. This means, our ability to plan our travel is compromised? Evaluate your self.
At the same time, devices like health monitors are great advances, useful to help diagnose and save lives. Telemedicine, is such an advancement where medical services can be rendered virtually any location. Appreciate such utilities.
Let me know your views.
With Microsoft first thought of Smart tablet, but Apple introduced to the market a product named iPad. Smart devices include phones, pads, tablets, wearables (includes watches, glass, shoes, monitors etc) which have flooded the market, and many other devices are yet to come.
Interesting fact is Graham bell could not make calls to his mother and wife as both were deaf. However, telephone has not only provided voice communication but also shrunk the distance. Traditional phone evolved into mobile phones (several studies on with their health hazards, but not a point on discussion here), made great in roads into many individuals. Although the communication capability improved, our ability to remember the telephone number, dates, events are slowly fading away. Now a days seldom people write the phone number, instead say, "give me a missed call".
By our reliance on functions of remembers, we are avoiding to use a great feature of our brain, long term learning. This is attributed to students as well. Thankfully, in India, still these devices have not penetrated to primary schools (though some governments are trying to their best), so that writing, maths skills are still manual.
What is the objective? By using these smart devices, do we compromise on our smartness? Do you want your smart phone to alert you to say "Today is your _____ birthday"? Our relationship is just a reminder? Think about it.
Now, geo coordinate based services pop up as you travel. This means, our ability to plan our travel is compromised? Evaluate your self.
At the same time, devices like health monitors are great advances, useful to help diagnose and save lives. Telemedicine, is such an advancement where medical services can be rendered virtually any location. Appreciate such utilities.
Let me know your views.
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