The "i" Society
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination"
Albert Einstein
While passing a table of four at a local restaurant, my eyes couldn't escape the funny sight. Two children under the age of five each heavily engrossed with their personal i pads. Their dad busy with his own i device. I chuckled as the lady at the table shifted her gaze from one to the next. The perfect "i "family.
True, with advancements in technology life has become easier and globally we are just a click, an app or a tab away from each other.
"It is a small world", phrase describes the "i" gadgets strikingly. The entire world, well almost, is summed up in mini sized icons on the screen of this device.
Apart from making calls, its prime function; it is helpful in doing homework, makes shopping hell easy and is a convenient baby sitter. It is even your buddy when boredom and loneliness raids and cracks you up with its creative answers to your monologue questions.
The fourth grade state testing requires children to know how to use a manual dictionary and which source to look into to locate a place. No, the answer is definitely not a website or an app.
Today, times have surely changed. Our children use sophisticated tools to look up for a meaning, do research online and instead of working on their penmanship and creativity, they polish their skills of, "copy and paste".
We need to ponder hard that whether usage of these mechanisms is beneficial in the long run.
Usually we proudly complement our little ones saying that how genius they are in grasping the latest moving technologies but become defensive when it comes to acquiring basic social surviving skills such as self-feeding and toilet training. What we have forgotten is the simple fact, young minds are extremely absorbent. They mould accordingly to their environment.
Technology has to be for the betterment of the society with correct usage at the correct time is essential as it can only go so far and then comes the human mind.
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