Education and Technology – The Below Technology Line (BPL, oops I meant BTL)

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Don’t follow the Title, i might drift away from it just the way everyone always does when they comfortable to, or towards something.

Life, back in the stone ages, used to be quite simple, isn’t it ? Well, not many of you would know about it since you weren’t there and yeah, true, Life was never simple in any age as it had its own conundrums but let’s agree to disagree on one thing ; when it comes to technology, life was quite simpler back then compared to how complex it has become for many in today’s date.

The complexity that i talk about is directly related to the fast paced and rapidly growing technology and the ability of everyone to keep up with it. The new generation who are smart, especially the children in good enough tech savy schools and universities, the men, women and whatevers working in organisations that has to keep up with the latest technology and the enthusiastics, professionals etc who too has to keep up with the world, apart from this category of people the rest of the population is not actually doing quite well when it comes to technology. Trust me, they aren’t.

This is the era of Smartphones. And if you do a survey, especially of 2nd world countries and many others as well, you would find that there are is a huge number of population that owns a smartphone and they can surf the web, use services as such as YouTube, WhatsApp etc, even know how to use the Google search and get to the millions of Porn sites that’s available for free on the Internet but, yeah, you know me, there is always a but haha.. so yeah, but, they don’t know how to send an email using Gmail which is an app just sitting out there on their phones. So, as you can understand by now that i am talking about a certain kind of population that exists Among Us yet we not be aware about them at all. Trust me, within this population also exists many people who might be using an iPhone and that too the latest one, yet, they don’t know how to send an email.. quite a rare set of people they are though, a breed that i have seen in India, and maybe you too have if you are lucky enough, in your own respective nations. And Ladies and Gentlemen, oh and also .. whatevers that i don’t know how to address, this special category of people is what I call as BTL – Below Technology Line, though the Pun in the Title.

I hope that by now it’s making sense to you, about where i am headed with this, how education is directly related to the technology. So, how many think that just because you’re educated enough, and can send an email and know the basic functions of your smartphone and Laptop etc., makes you better than the Below Technology Line population ? Any answers ? Well, let me put it up this way, let’s talk about Ms Excel, i believe everyone listening to this knows what Ms Excel is, don’t you ? Be honest. Okay, so do you know the difference between a person who can use Macro Functions, VLook up functions and other advanced features with which they can create an automated data sheets and even use Ms Excel for machine learning Versus the people who only know how to make basic tables and pie charts on Ms Excel ? Well, not to offend you but you’re the latter one, even if you own the latest technology as such as an iPhone 13, you’re still as equivalent to the person who knows how to use Ms Excel only to make basic tables and pie charts, your basic knowledge of Tech and how to handle it isn’t enough. After all you’re the targeted market of the Technology, you’re the mass buyers, the common sheep. Even though you’re educated enough to know the basic functions of the Technology, you’re not even close to knowing the True Potential, Power and knowledge of it. You don’t even know what it is and what any piece of technology is capable of. Well not to brag about it, but i am one of those who love to experiment with the deeper and darker side of this technology, why do you think that i like to keep myself as an open book otherwise, being an alien who is a human i have knowledge of it and have my own plans with the entire thing but let’s keep that for later, as I said in the beginning, i don’t want to drift away and also sail this cruise with you, away from the Topic.

Ah, maybe I should had concluded it here itself, but then again, when am I ever done ? So, here we set sail again.

My dear, Ladies and Gentlemen and the whatevers who i don’t know how to address, how much time have you given in your life to understand the everyday technology ? The Laptop that you use in your work and leisure, the phone that’s always by your side and that smartwatch that always is in your hand, just like mine, well, got an Amazefit Bio Pro and trust me i am loving it, many of you got an Apple watch, ohhh Richie riches out there with there high end tech devices .. ooh .. but here is the question, how much do you actually know about it ? Our closest ancestors like our grandparents or even our parents lived their lives without any need of it, they were much healthier, happy and entertained than us, won’t you agree ? What makes you different and better than them with that smartwatch in your hand ? Raise your hands for an answer or drop your comments, i would love to hear it from you.

And my next question, how much do you know about the real functionality of the smart devices and every piece of technology that you own and are surrounded by when you’re someone who has to buy a smart Tag for your child to keep a track of them because you’re busy and occupied with Life, well just know this that i don’t blame you for that, it’s the demand of today’s world and lifestyle as person you have to keep up with the world and to do so you have to remain busy, so much that you have to let your child be by themselves and those tags are your hope that you don’t lose them. So, when the topic of children popped up already then here we go, and the question is, when you yourself are not aware of what it all is, what are you teaching to the children ? The children don’t learn it all by themselves now do they ? They learn it from you, with a smartphone in their hand and them growing up during the curious age and with a world available to them through internet via smartphones or laptops how do you think you can control their exposure to everything that exists out there if you want to be a responsible parent who wants to raise their child properly as a Rose shrub or a Grape shrub rather than a Wild Weed Shrub. Huh ? Will wait for your answers.

So, for the conclusion ? Well, what conclusion, am i writing an essay over here to submit it to my teacher ? Nah, thank you for listening whoever is listening to this via my Spotify podcast and anyone who is interested to read well find it in my WordPress, head out to linktree find me as Hixeta and yeah there is only one Me, and you can leave your comments wherever you are comfortable with, i mean whichever site you want to, be it my Twitter Facebook Instagram or WordPress .. anyplace that you know how to access easily, let’s see how much above Technology Line you actually are. I will wait for your comments and answers, i would love to communicate with you all. It’s me, Hixeta Kalkri, the real one aka Rajiv Sharma, until next time.

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