Sipra's. Diary: Aladin's Lamp vs. Memory-box.

                                      ALADIN'S LAMP vs MEMORY-BOx                                     

We are fortunate enough to get in a touch of the beginning of the digital age. we are privileged more than the G-Zero generation in the sense that we know both the rise and fall of the old traditional ways of life and observed the change that the new wave has brought at present time. 

The most fantastic thing to me is that the digital age has opened the golden gate of the entire empire of knowledge; unlimited access to the field of knowledge, not just the privileged elite but for all; Good or bad, whatever might be, the democratization of knowledge, like a lawn-mower, has made us all quasi-elite by providing equal opportunities. 

We don't need to waste a lot of time searching or beating the bush. Now we have 'Aladdin's lamp on our palm; just open with the fist and a single click one can grip unlimited blessings of Apollo or Athena as you wish.

The evolutionary theory says as we developed and shifted to advanced habitat and started to use our limbs as hand and feet, then we lose our tail; it became obsolete because it was of no use.

What is easily earned, is also easily lost; if  it is true, then next generation after the G-Zero will surely lose the memory-box in the brain. It has already  started to become  weak and  feeble.
To keep  aside the future let us think about the present moment. The good thing to consider of is that common people have achieved the freedom to express their voices. 

But this freedom is devaluing the standard of literature. Secondly, 'online publishing' is opening the 'free market' of plagiarism which will deprive and frustrate the genuine writers. They may switch off themselves from the 'Online' publication' It is a herculean job to scan or detect the original works from the fake or copying.

We need to learn lessons from Nature:
Looking at Nature we can see the growth of weeds in the field is undesirable for the nutrition of the plants or crops.
A plant becomes weak and weaker when parasites grow in it because parasites consume most of the minerals and water from the soil. 

So in course of time, the academic field will lose product from the genuine talent in the future for the quasi-elite who may capture the role of the parasite. It(academic field) is gradually being occupied by mushrooming weeds and parasites.
How many Socrates, Shakespeare, Homer, Plato or Aristotle were born since the last two centuries? 

Charles Darwin has been famous for his Theory of Evolution and Origin of species without spending huge fund of the government. Digital age broadened the scope of 'quantitative progress' but not of qualitative improvement.

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