Just few moment back, i thought, i should write something, although i am totally unaware of the actual thought in my mind, it’s just some incomplete picture. Let me make some concrete shape out of it.
I was just thinking, where we would be 20 year down the line. What would be the face of technology, how will it impact us (technocrats) and common man. To be more precise, what would be the major consumer needs, where we can invest our present, so that we can have good return in future.
Some of the areas in my minds are:
1) Energy sector (Traditional means of energy may exhaust, oil/coal etc)
2) Water management
3) Food security (Some tool or automatic computerized system to improve actual yield from agricultural lands etc)
4) Weather forecasting, flood, rescue management etc. because i guess natural clematis going to be more than ever before. We have to have some solid system in place to deal with it.
5) Robotics and AI
So the question is: Is there any way by which we can put our technical skills and make some break through out of it.
Well, some other more common area could be:
1) Virtual office
2) Online matrimonial services(Trend will further boost up, as in future traditional system are going to break, finding suitable partner will going to be even more tough. So I guess its going to be a big business)
3) Online entertainment & dating sites. (No porn please, I am not talking about porn. But I guess people will get to feel more lonely in future, they need some good way of making there life full of amazement, nobody like to get feel bore)
4) Online crime going to be more frequent and challenging. So to handle them we need some sort of social profiling/auditing to control crime. (By statical analysis of internet footprints). I guess government will require these soft wares.
5) More touch and feel computer systems
6) Robotics in obvious sense, but this is in itself a huge field, i can't just imagine, in the process of making human out of machine, the transformation process itself take huge amount research and every piece of research in itself will consist of lot of opportunities.
Ohh, why i am talking big and tough things, thank god India is still not that much computerized, ample opportunity is available.
Lets me list down few opportunity, what is just coming into my mind
1) Software for retail sector. We have million+ shops in India, hardly computerized.
2) Supply chain management
3) Education/Training
4) Out sourcing for mid and small organization.
Now i guess it tough for small organization to outsource; only big organizations are able to outsource and cut the cost. If some automatic system for BPO can be placed, I guess it will benefit small and mid size customers a lot.
For example: ebay provide online platform for sell-purchase of goods. I am talking about sell-purchase of services, to be more precise authenticated software services.
Well, i think we can also learn from the past as well, do some failed idea of past make sense in present? Or there is anything good in past that we miss and technology can surface that. I guess we all can think about it?
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Animal Farm
Many thanks to heera for giving soft copy of such a nice book "Animal Farm". It is a best book of its kind that I have ever read. The writer has however written the book in the context of Russian revolution. But it fits greatly to everything around us like politics, corporate and even our society. Its just reflect the way we are.
The best part is that writer has not taken any name explicitly. He has given a wonderful analogy using Animal and the society of Animals. After reading this book, i have started wondering, What I am doing ? and for what i am doing ? and above all for whom i am doing ? Do hard work ever pay ? I always believe to be non political and keep my self away from politics whether its my home/family, office or friend circle. But now I am totally confused. But one thing is sure that this book made me think a lot. And I think this single book is going to help me a lot to shape my thinking process covering broader horizon. Well, i must agree that first 2-3 days after reading this books gone totally weird specially after reading the fate of horse (A very hardworking animal projected in a book) and the reason of this was his absolute faith on his corrupt handler. So the best learning from the book is "Absolute faith corrupt and its corrupt absolutely".
Well, thanks to God, I got gyan, and that is what i want to share with you all and this is the purpose of writing this blog. After reading the book i have realized that how much truth was there in a book. It always says Absolute faith corrupt and i realized that even absolute faith on this book will surely corrupt me. Read the last line again, this is the crux. Gyan kaam aaaya, "Absolute faith corrupts".
I guess, now i should quickly summarize my learning from this book:
1) Do not have absolute faith on any thing, put your reasoning and facts for any decision making
2) In work/job, You should always know 3 things for sure
2.1) for whom you are working (who will benefit from your work)
2.2) what is the objective behind your work ?
2.3) why are you working ?
This is all for today. You guys/girls can revert me if you need that mind blowing book.
Note: 6 thinking hats is a very nice book to learn about decision making.
The best part is that writer has not taken any name explicitly. He has given a wonderful analogy using Animal and the society of Animals. After reading this book, i have started wondering, What I am doing ? and for what i am doing ? and above all for whom i am doing ? Do hard work ever pay ? I always believe to be non political and keep my self away from politics whether its my home/family, office or friend circle. But now I am totally confused. But one thing is sure that this book made me think a lot. And I think this single book is going to help me a lot to shape my thinking process covering broader horizon. Well, i must agree that first 2-3 days after reading this books gone totally weird specially after reading the fate of horse (A very hardworking animal projected in a book) and the reason of this was his absolute faith on his corrupt handler. So the best learning from the book is "Absolute faith corrupt and its corrupt absolutely".
Well, thanks to God, I got gyan, and that is what i want to share with you all and this is the purpose of writing this blog. After reading the book i have realized that how much truth was there in a book. It always says Absolute faith corrupt and i realized that even absolute faith on this book will surely corrupt me. Read the last line again, this is the crux. Gyan kaam aaaya, "Absolute faith corrupts".
I guess, now i should quickly summarize my learning from this book:
1) Do not have absolute faith on any thing, put your reasoning and facts for any decision making
2) In work/job, You should always know 3 things for sure
2.1) for whom you are working (who will benefit from your work)
2.2) what is the objective behind your work ?
2.3) why are you working ?
This is all for today. You guys/girls can revert me if you need that mind blowing book.
Note: 6 thinking hats is a very nice book to learn about decision making.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Success, Failure & Happiness
Although i always resist to accept that there is any relation between happiness and success/failure. I always use to believe that its a person nature to be happy or not-happy. It has nothing to do with success or failure. But from quite some time i had started noticing that perhaps i am wrong. Happiness has to do with success and failure.
I think success is the level of satisfaction with respect to:
1) Physical
2) Mental
3) Financial
4) Emotional
5) Religious and Spiritual
I guess, if we satisfy at all 5 above mention point, we would be satisfied. And the is degree of satisfaction/dissatisfaction will determine the level of success or failure.
But i am still confuse about this new observation which just came into my mind. Will satisfaction on above mentioned 5 point will keep person happy forever ? As of now its seems "YES" ....
I think success is the level of satisfaction with respect to:
1) Physical
2) Mental
3) Financial
4) Emotional
5) Religious and Spiritual
I guess, if we satisfy at all 5 above mention point, we would be satisfied. And the is degree of satisfaction/dissatisfaction will determine the level of success or failure.
But i am still confuse about this new observation which just came into my mind. Will satisfaction on above mentioned 5 point will keep person happy forever ? As of now its seems "YES" ....
Monday, January 19, 2009
Spirituality (Part 2)
So, what is spirituality?
Here I go :), well, my definition of spirituality is not sanyas or anything which shift you from you responsibilities or your dreams. Its like fulfilling all your responsibilities and dreams and still be very happy. Its sound controversial but it is not. Spirituality is actually the state of mind, where one has proud of his/her deeds, has no regret of whatever he did. Always have smile on face and his/her mind rest in a peace. Well, now a days if person is happy and satisfied then people start wondering if he/she has no dream, he/she dont want to move forward in life. Lot of earning and having lot of associated tension becomes the definition of success. But is this right ? Here by being spiritual i meant to say that whatever person do may be during his/her course of action (job etc), he should always have respect for himself/herself. It will only come if he/she knew that he/she has created lot of value during that course of action. Otherwise person won't feel good, even after working very hard, taking so many tensions.
Further, I said spirituality is not religion but i think vice-versa should be true. Spirituality does not have extremism, while religion may have. Although there is lot of common things like both focus on being a better human being. But extremism in religion some time neglects this part. Anyway as I said I believe "Person need not to be religious to be a spiritual but I must say person should be spiritual to be religious." If you mix both religion and spirituality, the wonderful result will came out.
As I said earlier (one more back reference to my earlier post), religion is like hired wired (physical circuit), it anyway always remains with the person, but if spirituality gets added to it (like application software) you can really get huge advantage of under lying hardware (religion in this case).
So what the person should do to become spiritual. Well, I think specially person need not to do anything expect trying to develop some good habits, Soon these habit will become part of person's personality. Then happiness will become a integral part of person’s nature and quality of life automatically get improved. Isn’t simple? Wish all of you “Good Luck”.......
Here I go :), well, my definition of spirituality is not sanyas or anything which shift you from you responsibilities or your dreams. Its like fulfilling all your responsibilities and dreams and still be very happy. Its sound controversial but it is not. Spirituality is actually the state of mind, where one has proud of his/her deeds, has no regret of whatever he did. Always have smile on face and his/her mind rest in a peace. Well, now a days if person is happy and satisfied then people start wondering if he/she has no dream, he/she dont want to move forward in life. Lot of earning and having lot of associated tension becomes the definition of success. But is this right ? Here by being spiritual i meant to say that whatever person do may be during his/her course of action (job etc), he should always have respect for himself/herself. It will only come if he/she knew that he/she has created lot of value during that course of action. Otherwise person won't feel good, even after working very hard, taking so many tensions.
Further, I said spirituality is not religion but i think vice-versa should be true. Spirituality does not have extremism, while religion may have. Although there is lot of common things like both focus on being a better human being. But extremism in religion some time neglects this part. Anyway as I said I believe "Person need not to be religious to be a spiritual but I must say person should be spiritual to be religious." If you mix both religion and spirituality, the wonderful result will came out.
As I said earlier (one more back reference to my earlier post), religion is like hired wired (physical circuit), it anyway always remains with the person, but if spirituality gets added to it (like application software) you can really get huge advantage of under lying hardware (religion in this case).
So what the person should do to become spiritual. Well, I think specially person need not to do anything expect trying to develop some good habits, Soon these habit will become part of person's personality. Then happiness will become a integral part of person’s nature and quality of life automatically get improved. Isn’t simple? Wish all of you “Good Luck”.......
Monday, December 29, 2008
Spirituality (Part 1)
Aaaa haaa, thnx praveen for suggesting such a nice topic to put thoughts on. Some where i have read that all the knowladge of this entire universe converse on the point called philosophy, It is a reason why Phd is called Doctrate in philosophy. Even Phd in mathematics is called Doctrate of philosophy in mathematics. Aaaa haaaaa ...... and destination of pholosophy is the starting point of spiritual world. Full of calm and peace. Well, here i would say that do not confuse between spirituality and religion. Both are diff. things, religion is something which is by birth (hard wired) and spirituality is totally a person choice (like software application). It has a same diff as between relatives and friend.
So now question arise what is spirituality and what role it plays in human life. Well, i think spirituality is a "way of life". How you move forward in life taking care of all your responsiblity. It is not sanyas, its a way person leads better life. In my opinion it improves the quality of life. So spiritual growth of a person is as important as career growth and/or financial growth.
Satisfaction, feeling of no regret, sense of self pride, peace of mind and calmness are few of the characteristics of spiritual man. Once these characteristics become habit in peoples life, the quality of life gets automatically improved. Person need not to be religious to be a spiritual but i must say person should be spiritual to be religious.
........ rest for next post.
So now question arise what is spirituality and what role it plays in human life. Well, i think spirituality is a "way of life". How you move forward in life taking care of all your responsiblity. It is not sanyas, its a way person leads better life. In my opinion it improves the quality of life. So spiritual growth of a person is as important as career growth and/or financial growth.
Satisfaction, feeling of no regret, sense of self pride, peace of mind and calmness are few of the characteristics of spiritual man. Once these characteristics become habit in peoples life, the quality of life gets automatically improved. Person need not to be religious to be a spiritual but i must say person should be spiritual to be religious.
........ rest for next post.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Reservation in India: Need of the time
From quite some time i am observing our society which is day by day becoming more pro-active and less resilience, its more like a fashion to speak against. One that thing is Reservation. So here i would like to put some light on neglected part of this issue which is all together buried in the deep soil that is: SOCIAL JUSTICE. Which our young generation, who is protesting against the reservation, is not realizing and seeing this time. I think we should also see the other side of the coin
I really appreciate that people (May be driven by self consciousness or other) have start taking initiative and some how start contributing to the society in one way or other. Actually in democracy like us (INDIA), discussion is always fruitful to formulate a policy which is well balanced and designed after keeping the pros and cons in mind. When people discuss, it always happen that some good ideas come into the picture, which is beneficial for all.
I respect the feeling of all those, who are against the reservation, in ideal society where all the persons are equal, reservation has no meaning. But here the thread lies, our society is not equal, it is economically and socially divided. There are lot many people who still have nothing, in fact i think we all know and generally ignore this fact in daily life that 33 % population of our country still lives below poverty line(less then 1 $ a day), 20 % people are utilizing mote than 80 % of resource and rest 80 % people are utilizing less than 20 % of resources. In fact 20% of our national wealth is in the hand of just few hundred people, who represent just 0.001% of population. Here the issue of social justice comes into the picture. Which says that every proud nation has the responsibility to uplift its weaker section of society and we all are the part of Nation, isn't it. The Nation’s progress is totally judge by the resources that its poorest person has. We can’t be a developed country by having just 20% rich people; the benefit of modern society should reach to every individual. I am very much confident that everyone reading this blog will agree with me on this point. Further, I am confident that all will agree that this section should be provided the subsidy (in other words concession or reservation) so that they uplift themselves and become more competitive. At the same time I also realize that some of you may not agree with the way this is implemented but all will agree that the motive behind reservation/concession which is indeed very +ve.
Actually in democratic society like India we can not follow the “Jungle Rule” which says that only those people can survive which are stronger and competitive, less competitive people has to suffer. We can’t apply same principle in the society, govt. provide reservation to physically disable people keeping this view in mind. Similarly in the case where society is divided we must have to find some way to normalize it.
We all agree that support should be provided to poor people & we say that poverty has no caste. We all agree for reservation should be based on economic basis. isn’t it ?? Means in principle we are in support of reservation (we may be disagree with the way to implement it) this is what I want you all people to realize. But you see Govt. has no way to determine that who is poor and who is rich. Only 2% of our population is in income tax net!!! Means 98 % people can legally claim that they are economically weaker. Above all getting a fake income certificate is much easier then getting a fake caste certificate? Perhaps caste base reservation is the easiest way to provide immediate relief to the weaker section of society. I also agree that it is not a long term solution. But still I would say until and unless we do not have sound system in place we have to continue on our current policy. Otherwise how these people can be uplifted??
We must also realize that at the time of independence we have some of the most visionary leaders of the world who have suggested reservation as the way to uplift weaker section of society. Because they realize that castes are the reality in India and most of the poor people belongs to particular castes. They propose caste base reservation. I agree that it is very sad that even after 6 decade we have to continue the reservation based on caste but still if society has not been normalized we have to continue (well, how can we forget the big fact that from last 5000 year (from when our caste system is in place), these people are suffering. It will take time to normalize. May be 100 years or more, its just 60 year.)
In ideal society, it’s always happen that capable people help less capable people even on his/her interest!! And because we do not have any other effective system in place we should welcome any mean who helps them even if it is caste based reservation!! As a developing country don't we (India as a country) gets concession from developed countries in WTO talks based on the same ground that we are less capable and we need some time to build competency.
Actually, the whole scenario, which going on today, is actually the way in which our generation thinks. That is; to make decision fast, implement it faster and further have result faster. But whenever revolution takes place it all together a different story. It takes time to reach at some decision (especially in democracy where consensus is must), implementation further takes time and off course we have to be patience for the result. It is only 6 decade that our great nation got independence; we need to give time and our support so that they can uplift themselves to such a height that we people feel competitive to them!!
But at the same time I would also like to add that this topic is very subjective, I m not against to the people who either supporting the cause of reservation or against it. I do not want to make it as a topic of debate, but surely want that some serious discussion should be held country wide, which aims towards finding some WIN -WIN solution to this problem and which is practical to realize. I think that we should continue with the current policy with below checks:
1) More fund to primary and secondary education
2) Restrict reservation to needy in backward classes, creamy layer should be excluded all together. Like IAS & IPS sibling to not need it.
3) An authority which will take care of issue concerning this matter must be in place which reviews the whole policy time to time say each 5 year.
4) We can start with current policy but it should ultimately lead towards to make a policy so that benefits of reservation reach only to needy.
5) create more aware ness among the reserve category itself so that they can take full advantage of the benefits, it has been seen due to lack of awareness truly needy person does not get benefits.
At the last I would like to add that we should listen to others, and be open to their perception and thought, thereby getting a larger picture & a far more objective view.
I really appreciate that people (May be driven by self consciousness or other) have start taking initiative and some how start contributing to the society in one way or other. Actually in democracy like us (INDIA), discussion is always fruitful to formulate a policy which is well balanced and designed after keeping the pros and cons in mind. When people discuss, it always happen that some good ideas come into the picture, which is beneficial for all.
I respect the feeling of all those, who are against the reservation, in ideal society where all the persons are equal, reservation has no meaning. But here the thread lies, our society is not equal, it is economically and socially divided. There are lot many people who still have nothing, in fact i think we all know and generally ignore this fact in daily life that 33 % population of our country still lives below poverty line(less then 1 $ a day), 20 % people are utilizing mote than 80 % of resource and rest 80 % people are utilizing less than 20 % of resources. In fact 20% of our national wealth is in the hand of just few hundred people, who represent just 0.001% of population. Here the issue of social justice comes into the picture. Which says that every proud nation has the responsibility to uplift its weaker section of society and we all are the part of Nation, isn't it. The Nation’s progress is totally judge by the resources that its poorest person has. We can’t be a developed country by having just 20% rich people; the benefit of modern society should reach to every individual. I am very much confident that everyone reading this blog will agree with me on this point. Further, I am confident that all will agree that this section should be provided the subsidy (in other words concession or reservation) so that they uplift themselves and become more competitive. At the same time I also realize that some of you may not agree with the way this is implemented but all will agree that the motive behind reservation/concession which is indeed very +ve.
Actually in democratic society like India we can not follow the “Jungle Rule” which says that only those people can survive which are stronger and competitive, less competitive people has to suffer. We can’t apply same principle in the society, govt. provide reservation to physically disable people keeping this view in mind. Similarly in the case where society is divided we must have to find some way to normalize it.
We all agree that support should be provided to poor people & we say that poverty has no caste. We all agree for reservation should be based on economic basis. isn’t it ?? Means in principle we are in support of reservation (we may be disagree with the way to implement it) this is what I want you all people to realize. But you see Govt. has no way to determine that who is poor and who is rich. Only 2% of our population is in income tax net!!! Means 98 % people can legally claim that they are economically weaker. Above all getting a fake income certificate is much easier then getting a fake caste certificate? Perhaps caste base reservation is the easiest way to provide immediate relief to the weaker section of society. I also agree that it is not a long term solution. But still I would say until and unless we do not have sound system in place we have to continue on our current policy. Otherwise how these people can be uplifted??
We must also realize that at the time of independence we have some of the most visionary leaders of the world who have suggested reservation as the way to uplift weaker section of society. Because they realize that castes are the reality in India and most of the poor people belongs to particular castes. They propose caste base reservation. I agree that it is very sad that even after 6 decade we have to continue the reservation based on caste but still if society has not been normalized we have to continue (well, how can we forget the big fact that from last 5000 year (from when our caste system is in place), these people are suffering. It will take time to normalize. May be 100 years or more, its just 60 year.)
In ideal society, it’s always happen that capable people help less capable people even on his/her interest!! And because we do not have any other effective system in place we should welcome any mean who helps them even if it is caste based reservation!! As a developing country don't we (India as a country) gets concession from developed countries in WTO talks based on the same ground that we are less capable and we need some time to build competency.
Actually, the whole scenario, which going on today, is actually the way in which our generation thinks. That is; to make decision fast, implement it faster and further have result faster. But whenever revolution takes place it all together a different story. It takes time to reach at some decision (especially in democracy where consensus is must), implementation further takes time and off course we have to be patience for the result. It is only 6 decade that our great nation got independence; we need to give time and our support so that they can uplift themselves to such a height that we people feel competitive to them!!
But at the same time I would also like to add that this topic is very subjective, I m not against to the people who either supporting the cause of reservation or against it. I do not want to make it as a topic of debate, but surely want that some serious discussion should be held country wide, which aims towards finding some WIN -WIN solution to this problem and which is practical to realize. I think that we should continue with the current policy with below checks:
1) More fund to primary and secondary education
2) Restrict reservation to needy in backward classes, creamy layer should be excluded all together. Like IAS & IPS sibling to not need it.
3) An authority which will take care of issue concerning this matter must be in place which reviews the whole policy time to time say each 5 year.
4) We can start with current policy but it should ultimately lead towards to make a policy so that benefits of reservation reach only to needy.
5) create more aware ness among the reserve category itself so that they can take full advantage of the benefits, it has been seen due to lack of awareness truly needy person does not get benefits.
At the last I would like to add that we should listen to others, and be open to their perception and thought, thereby getting a larger picture & a far more objective view.
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