Just came across a news report ( HT / 14 April ) which
says , parents of students of Vibgyor School ( Mumbai ), have opposed the
decision of School Management to give tablets to Students of class 5
They are worried about continuous use of tablets
damaging the eyes of their children - even as they are keen to reduce the
weight of the school-bags by over 80 %
There could be other health hazards such as :
* Reduced
alertness in the class rooms
* Diverting
attention to online games ... etc
But , are these parents able to reduce the number of
hours that their children watch TV / send text messages from their smart phones
?
Of course , not !
If anything , the trend towards watching some or other screen
, is ever increasing , all over the World
This will get only worse with arrival of Virtual
Reality ( VR ) devices , in next 2 / 3 years ! Expect all students to be
walking around wearing Google Glass !
And when holograms arrive , we may look like zombies
talking to unreal images flooding the living rooms of our homes !
And , lying in our beds and watching late night movies
on our bedroom ceiling !
When these children grow up and take up jobs in offices
( no one wants to work on factory floor ! ) , they will be staring into a
computer screen for 10 hours per day !
There is no way , the march of technology can be
stopped
Either technology will find a way to overcome health
hazards or over the next 500,000 years , humans will merge with computers , in
what , Ray Kurzweil calls " Singularity " !
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15 April 2016
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