Technolo-ch'i

Economists, Financial Analysts, Statisticians, Demographers, Climatologists, Astrologers and of course Business consultants do this all the time...Assume (make an ASS out of U and ME) and then predict the future. The whole world eagerly wait to eat up what they are about to vomit; ultimately sending economies to recession, share prices berserk, dumb public to panic, create new trends, countries to war and people generally direction less.
Another observation is surprisingly we do not challenge these predictors when their advices, which are almost always wrong, don't work. Obelix comments 'People are crazy'.
 

I have a few armchair (ass-at-rest) predictions too ... without any assumptions. They are so obvious that I am sure that I am safe :-)

• In a few decades, we will have dumb terminals hooked to the one big server: 'The Web'. No more operating Systems, no more pirated MS-Office, no more installation CDs & drivers and no more Hard disks. So we will see the end of the 'Personal' Computer.
• Many customers will realize that the entities: computers, automation, software, hardware and consultants had taken them for a ride. The implementation wizard was a lie, Business never improved, processes never got streamlined, the softwares were not easy to use, it was neither adaptive nor flexible and Total Cost of Ownership was always high. They will feel cheated and will seriously challenge the sales of the then software houses.
• The Age of custom developments and in-house software will return.
• Technology changed so fast but not its acceptance! Customers (sometimes excluding the IT manager) still don't understand whats ERP, Business Intelligence, work flow and pervasive technology. These concepts were too futuristic for today but they will sell tomorrow.
• Like the electronics industry the world will then have just a few big software giants. The minnows will either be swallowed by the giants or will perish.
• Entrepreneurs and software houses will then stop developing out-of-the-world and way-over-the-head applications but instead will pursue the development of very basic databases, integrative applications and infrastructures for the web.

Anyone dare challenge these? ;-)

≈ Mirage

At the beginning of the 20^th century most physicists believed they soon would come up with an explanation to everything in this universe i.e. A Theory of Everything. Arising to the occasion came Einstein, Neil Bohr, Heisenberg with his Uncertainty Principle, Schrödinger with his Cat and many more. But the theory didn’t come. Instead we saw a series of new discoveries, more mysteries, more explanations and more theories. A section of classical physics had to even break off to become a new field of research known as Quantum Physics. When things started to look more complicated than before the physicists declared that it would take 'a little more time' before the Theory of Everything is out. It seemed the more they strived for the ultimate truth the more mysteries propped up.

Well, if that was a century ago then lets see what is the state of physics in 2005:

• We still can’t figure out what the fundamental particle is. Weird. And new sub and sub-sub atomic particles keep propping up

•  Sub-atomic complexities are on the rise. If my understanding’s right, there are some particles which have Spin 1/2 i.e. that need to be spun 2 complete revolutions to bring it back to it's original state. Duh! :-{
• We still can’t figure out where solidity begins. At sub-atomic levels there is no ‘balls’ or ‘beads’ of electrons and protons as we were shown in the school physics textbooks. So what we touch is just a force field?!

 

Trillions of dollars and man-centuries of work must have gone into quantum physics researches alone. The expenditure in the other streams must only be more. Imagine how much time and money is being spent throughout history to get to the ultimate answer.

 

Will we ever find the answer? I feel the answer is like the mirage; we will never reach it. The depth of any subject will continuously deepen the more we focus on it and it will deepen to infinity. One will be lost in the never-ending labyrinth of knowledge streams with the new discoveries, new insights and new dimensions.

All these researches may just be skimming the surface of ONE endless ocean.

 

"Stay in thy matrix! Dare not come close to Me. Dare not understand Me" maybe the Almighty's intent :-)

 

Orangensaft Zing

K7 is a bundle of optimism and an epitome of positivity.

People call him the Happy-go-Lucky guy. And it’s a joy for people to just be around him. Getting to meet him is exciting and chatting with him is fun. Even a phone call from him cheers you up. He is bubbly, always merry, is optimistic in all that he undertakes, surprises everyone with his ‘bindas’ attitude and exudes his youth energy into all around him.

Highlighting some of the important observations on K7:

• He believes he is the LUCKIEST guy on earth,
• ONLY good happens to him,
• Bad circumstances are temporary and TURN GOOD for him ultimately,
• His decisions are ALWAYS RIGHT, and
• Anything’s POSSIBLE with him

It can be noticed that Lady Luck is always inclined to offer her blessings to K7. K7's attitude reinforces his luck base and for this reason persons with such personalities become even more successful.
 

Some behavioral scientists relate this ‘angelic’ effect of K7 is maybe due to his cheerful face. The psychologist Richard Wiseman has explained how being positive and cheerful has direct proportionality on luck. So for the unfortunate few of us who are depressive and negative by nature, our salvation (or success) in this life may depend on point in time when we learn to acquire this K7 personality.

 

Sometimes, many born with small amounts of K7-ism lose it when life turns into a bumpy road after it had been a long smooth superhighway. I think we should never lose our hope and our optimism…ever. We just cannot afford the loss. The difficult period is meant only to test the personality’s elasticity.

Being optimistic is the ONLY way forward.