I actually wanted to discuss abt this topic on Engineers day. But as I’ve mentioned in the blog on that day, I had to change the topic due to circumstances.

When i look at this world 50-100 years ago and put my brain in the job of thinking and realizing how and where we are now, it gives me both joy and sorrows. And the former being more. Of course in terms of advancement in science and Tech we have achieved a lot. We have all the things at our hands now to aid us in leading a easy life. But all these things which we have created for helping us in leading easy life really friendly and helpful as we really think?

I might list a lot of things here. But for all of them, the root cause remains same- “POPULATION EXPLOSION”. I’ll explain why. Oops… I need not explain rather….

Man started to invent the things as and when he found the need. Bulb was invented to fight darkness, electricity- to help industrialise, vehicles- for mobility etc. Like the famous proverb “Necessity is the mother of all inventions”, man’s day to day needs forced him to invent the things which would help him in doing those jobs. The funniest thing to be noticed here is that as we invent one thing say X we had to invent one more thing say Y to either aid X or to neutralize the ill effect of X. for example when vehicles like Motor car were invented, immediately there was need to lay out roads connencting diiferent places and to lay out roads, materials like Tar and all had to be discovered. The list grows on like this.

And finally we had to invent medicines to counter the ill effect of poisonous gas emission of the vehicle. This is just an example. A most simplest one of all. So my question is are we really happy after inventing so many stuffs to lead a comfortable life?

I can debate on this topic started by myself. But I would jst mention the ill effects here. Will not talk about the other side i.e good effects (if any) of the technological advancement. Of course we are not happy. We are just leading a compromised life. Will u believe me if I say that in pre-independence era, there was hardly 10 bicycles parked in commercial street of B’lore during day time. People used to walk freely on roads. No honking horns, traffic snarls, jams, pollution etc. only walking people all around. What about today? Absolute chaos.

Such a stressfull life we are leading. We have so many means to stay connected with our friends, near and dear ones. But hardly we get time to make a simple call and speak to them. But in those days? People used to walk miles long to reach to their dear ones. We have so many sophisticated super speciality hospitals. But what about the average life of a human being? Coming down day by day. But in those days there were hardly any clinics around. So many colleges have come up, but hardly imparts any quality education. With each and every invention man has complicted his life.

As I go on listing the above symptoms of advancement in technology, I find there is no end for this. It is infinite. But I want to discuss what has to be done now. We are absolutely heading towards destruction without any doubt. Only thing we have to do now is to do our job best as to not to harm anyone in anyway. It is true that we cant always remain in touch with our dear ones like how we used to. But at least make sure that we try to improve on this by trying to call once in two days or so. Mr. Big B has said in his blog that words matter most. So whenever we call up our dear ones lets make sure that we speak good words to make them happy. We live for very few days on this earth. So the goal should be to live a life without any excessive desires to posses material wealth, not to harm anyone, not to be egoistic, not to be jealous of others. Make as many good friends as possible. Or help as much as you can to your friends. lets do whatever job we have without any flaws. Sir M vishweshwaraya has told that “ don’t bother about what work you do. Even if your job is to clean a railway crossing, clean it in such a way that no other railway crossing in this world is as clean as yours!!!!!” .

Lets try to build a society with trust, Love and relationship.