Saturday 23 June 2007

Trends in the electronic age

The rate at which our world has gone into the electronic age (e-age), is eyebrow raising. The slow times are gradually demystifying out of the way. Life is now fast paced. No wonder, the 24 hours we are blessed for a day seem never enough for our never-ending multiple tasks.

The e-age has unveiled the trend of curiosity and detailed scrutiny into issues and events. Most of the e-age experts use it to rediscover both the past and to predict the future. In the good old days, most fellows explored their past glories, gloomy occasions and events through story-telling.

The future was predicted upon the observation of certain events, weather patterns and certain environmental trends. For instance, the sight of clouds in the high atmosphere or the mass migration of birds from one end of the world to the other denoted that rain would come. This was an invaluable art of indigenous weather forecast, which has sunk into the past. The e-age has phased it out of the way. Now, what can a mass of fog in the high atmosphere suggest in this e-age but massive pollution that exist in our environment?

The e-age presents people with the art of self-discovery. Despite the fact that it has opened the accounts of people’s life to the public in a wide sphere, it has turned the world into a tiny village of myriad complexities.

Coming to think of it, this trend is irreversible. No matter how much tears we shed or how many wars we engage in, to alleviate the effects of the e-age, the water has already flowed under the bridge. It is positive to note that some people can monitor their homes from thousands of miles away. Courtesy of internet search engines like Google Earth and Yahoo, they are updated by each second on what is going on in their homes, compounds et al.

Some spies or detectives can monitor ones’ home and private life without ones’ knowledge. They intrude on the inalienable right to privacy since they are crafting a living out of it, or are up to something sinister.

Nowadays, whenever examination results are released, one thing that someone who knows how to take advantage of the e-age can do is to download the results for their beholding. There are the particular ones whose impulse would propel them to want to know how their friend or foe performed. In the case their foe, if the results are damn awful, they will feel happy and spread the tidings. This is unethical since such should be a private issue.

This is something that some ill-intentioned fellows might use to dig in the back of those guys they have beef with. In the long run, you don’t even know who is losing out. This makes me wonder, but had our good old past been with us, we could have advanced in a very unique perspective. The histo-cultural twists and turns of fate instilled a sense of fear, morals and conviction in the minds of the people of the time. The heritage was a boost to their peaceful co-existence. But that we have let that heritage pass by, the centre can now not hold and things have fallen apart.

Joshua Masinde

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