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| Technology and Traditional skills |
When
a country develops its technology, the traditional skills and ways of life die
out. It is pointless
to try and keep them alive. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
With progress and technological
innovation setting their firm footing in almost every walk of life sustaining
conventional techniques of doing work and living seem to be useless. Many
people think the old methods have become irrelevant and should be discarded
while there are some who feel that it is not possible to shelve conventional
methods.
Technological innovations have proven
all old conventions wrong and have ushered the humanity into a new era where the
priority is to derive maximum output efficiently within a given time frame.
This makes it imperative for the people to abandon the old methods of carrying
out work as old techniques though focus on quality but do not guarantee
optimized output and in the modern paradigm. When more output is being targeted,
it is not possible to rely on the old methodology of working.
Furthermore, the people who advocate applying
latest inclusion of inventions into the work processes feel that traditional
techniques now only have a monumental significance and they belong to shelves
in museums and archives. As per them, humanity is foraying into new domains and
to work in the new surroundings they need new concepts to achieve perfection
and precision. The age old conventional methods and technology are highly
incompatible in the new era.
However, numerous people advocate
continuation and preservation of old applications and methods of carrying out
work. They feel that the old wisdom and methods have laid the foundations for
development of new technologies. As per them, innovations are merely offshoots
of conventional systems and even today these ancient techniques have great
relevance in resolving problems that creep up in latest innovations.
To sum up, I personally feel that
shelving traditional skills is not possible and humanity cannot afford to
forget old methods.
