Be a smart-user and beat the smart-phones in smartness.

We are living in the century where many of the systems which seemed impossible few years back are in use. We have google maps to track the traffic, smartphones which contain everything that existed in computers. Using systems like YOLO (You Only Look Once), you can simultaneiously classify multiple objects in the images. Machine translation systems, speech recognition systems, automatic digitization systems etc. are easily available for human-machine interaction. You can avoid to be a stranger in a foreign land if you smartly use technology. The unavoidable fact however is that everything comes with a price. It is said that there is no gain without pain. When we become accustomed to technology, do we tend to forget the real world?

We have to understand that our friendships with machines should not hamper our freindships with living-beings. It is said that a good friend is not the one who binds you but is the one who liberates you. You are naturally attracted to such a friend, and you can share everything you feel with him/her as you know he/she is not exploiting you. I am fortunate to have few such friends, whom I do not talk regularly with, but whenever we talk we feel as if we have never been out-of-touch. Time and distance does not matter.

Technology can also become such a friend if we deal maturely with it. We can share our skills very easily, get feedbacks, earn money online due to technology. If we try to just use the technology and do not contribute, the consequence would be that we won't understand the purpose of technology. This increses the chances of being used by the technology.

The solution to develop a good friendship with machine is contributing to its development. We all have experience when we just read everyone's post scrolling down the facebook what happens, and if we focus on the quality of our own posts what happens.

Some folks are against technology, even though they use technology all the time. This happens because they focus just on negative aspects of it. The reality however is that problem is not there in the technology, in development of technology, but in the users who want to exploit technology. If someone has diabities, even sweetest of the sweet is poison for him/her.

Here I would end with two important verses from Bhagavad-Gita:

B.G. 2.62: While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.

B.G. 2.63: From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool.

To make it positive agian, here is another verse on the topic of friendship:

B.G. 6.6: For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his very mind will be the greatest enemy.

I wish you to be a smart-user and beat the smart-phones in smartness.

Yours

Rohit Saluja

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