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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Technology is a must but it must not be presumed to replace the role of every professional

 Our problem itself is because as a nation we have:-


   1. More experts than victims or issues;
   2. More critics than performers;
   3. More media trials than all courts put together;
   4. More awards than deserving people;
   5. More political parties than number of constituencies;
   6. More NGOs working for poor than the number of actual poor people;
   7. More departments than number of bureaucrats;
   8. More criminals than police force;
   9. More companies than products manufactured;
   10. More news Channels [nuisance channels] than news items;

  Real Swatch Bharath needs to weed out some of these.

But we want to lessen the role of professionals, less intervention, advice and suggestions by lawyers, less auditors, less teachers, less doctors.

If technology can replace, no doubt to a certain extent, certain redundant activities and not all of the activities. As it is doctors are sandwiched between the overload of diagnostic equipment ( which aid in greater accuracy and hence indispensable - we can't dismiss the role of  X-rays, MRIs , Scans, blood tests etc) and the Pharma industry produced medical prescriptions  ( which again is inevitable because a doctor is not a chemist who can set up a unit and manufacture medicines) but every doctor is a specialist who knows how much is too much, who knows to decipher what the diagnostic gadgets reveal and also what specific medicine produced by Pharma industries can be prescribed according to the age and multiple other parameters of  the patients. 

I am for technology, technological advancements are inevitable aids but not replacement devices for human minds. If technology can replace the role of so many professions, why not use robots to monitor every village and the development activities there and replace Politically elected MPs and MLAs.

In fact, I am aggressively pro- technology for its immense utility to humanity to put it bluntly from a common man's perspectives it enhanced various activities which could have remained at best in the wildest mad dreams and imaginations of human beings be it a bicycle or a aeroplane or a ship or car or a telescope or a microscope and so on till the great internet. 


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