technoology advances

Today the technology is taking us places - of course, there are positives and negatives of its use.

While a century ago, even to send a message to somebody living in a far off place, we needed a bird to carry it over to them, today, we get instant connectivity through telephones, online chats, etc. You can see your near ones, even if they are continents apart through webcams and hold a daily conversations through Skye, VOIP, etc.

I am typing this blog from the aircraft flying over the skies of East coast of America. I am currently on board the flight from Atlanta to Newark and there is this availability of wifi connectivity which enables me to do this.

Yesterday, we were having a conference call with 5 participants - each participant from different locations - Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Phoenix and Chicago through gotomeeting. What a amassing technology it is isn't. All our teams have regular conference calls and scrum meetings with people from different locations every day, when they said that for distributed teams scrum cannot be implemented, it is working well through use of technology.

Even take the everyday usage, how many things we do with technology, right from gas cylinder booking through sms to ticket purchasing for either travel or entertainment - how far we have come. I only look forward to the day in which our farmers will be able to totally use technology to increase the farm yield

But at the same time, we need to take cognizance of the way in which technology is also misused take for example, passing on through MMS obscene things, a common enough example, to the use of unmanned war equipments which can create havoc in an enemy land, etc.

Lets all be like the proverbial Anna Patchi or the legendary Swam, which can take only milk and leave out the water behind. Lets all join hands to prevent global warming, find out more and more ways to make life easier and world a beautiful place to live in