Most of the
people asked an interesting, but the same question when they read my article,
How
can you compare between individuals?
1. One set
of people said, a decade or couple of decade ago we never had Google, Facebook,
IPod etc...The life style had completely changed, how can you compare them?
2. Other
set of people said 'how can you compare individuals? they are known for the diversity.'
Let me take
a deep look at the first question:
At high
level it seems it is very difficult and we say we can‘t. Let us take a closer
look.
There is an old saying “CHANGE is the only thing that never CHANGES over time” and we are true, our life
style changed over a period of time.
We are having more artificial engagement & entertainments at our disposal.
My dad is not a PhD or some genius, he is just a diploma holder, who worked
very hard for his living.
He used to
say his father is more intelligent than him. That was the power of human brain
couple of decades ago.
Can I do a two three digit (123 * 987) multiply. Nope!! I require a computer or a calculator to do that. Though I can do two digit multiplications (12 * 98).
Can I do a two three digit (123 * 987) multiply. Nope!! I require a computer or a calculator to do that. Though I can do two digit multiplications (12 * 98).
Who knows
our next generation may require the electronic gadgets to even do the two digit
multiplication.
What is the
reason for this huge memory drain, within a family generation?
Is it the
new gadgets in the environment, or the food habits or the parents’ life style
that caused this memory drain?
Is it not
true, we as an individual should know
- How our life had changed after getting addicted to gadgets?
- How our relationship changed with our parents, friends, Kids after using the instruments?
- How my medical cost went up after the purchase of one or series of gadgets?
- How our memory power had reduced over period of decades?
- How my earning power had increased, health had increased over the period of time?
These types
of questions can be answered if we have a data warehousing for our own life.
This type
of answers helps us to retrospect our life. This will help us to re – organize our
priorities, so that our kids will have the mathematical power of our father and
the luxury of gadgets as ours.
By analyzing our self we can say, does the change happened over a period of time around
me is good for my personal life? Or is it taking away the good from me?
Gandhi (Who
is as called father of nation in INDIA) who is father of non-violence said “if you want
to bring in change into the environment, you implement all the change to
yourself before asking the environment to change”. Don’t this data warehousing
for human life will help us to achieve those good things?
It is not
required for a corporation to pour in billions of dollars to analyze these information’s.
We can do it our self, by simple discipline in the data collection process.
Today’s
technological advances have provided us the necessary tool to reorganize our
self.
Please let
me know your thoughts on this topic this will help us to reach a common ground
to redefine our own life.
Oops!! I will answer the other question raised in the following post....
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Some excellent, thought provoking ideas in here. My thoughts are too lengthy to post in a comment, so I posted a response here:
ReplyDeletehttp://technologydimensions.blogspot.com/2012/01/contemplating-personal-data-warehouse.html