Frustrations of Technology

Many great discoveries and inventions of the world were done long before the era of the smart phones and computers; when men used the abacus to count, feather quill pens to write and the ability to read was a privilege of a few. Then men had little or no knowledge about the earth which was believed to be flat and to be the center of the universe. There were no airplanes, no phones and satellites were inexistent. Yet more than 80% of today’s existing knowledge was built-up during that epoch.
Despite all the advancements in technology today, the world has been unable to trace the Malaysia MH370 plane that went missing since months. In spite of today’s acclaimed technology, the world hasn’t been able to track down a group of unscrupulous Boko Haram extremists (Nigeria) holding hundreds of girls hostage since weeks and tarnishing the reputation of one fastest growing economy of the world.

The above two scenarios are really exposing the limitations of today’s level of technology. It still beats my imagine how an object as large as Airplane MH 370 equipped with the most sophisticated chips and a crowd as huge as 300 girls cannot be traced and tracked. This is also a reminder of how vulnerable we are today! It is time to go for alternatives rather than comforting ourselves that we are surpassing the age of technology and moving into the robotic age! 

What a world of technology!
May be we should resort to African magic, the African technology…..to be continued!