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Useless junk. It takes real effort to make an opinion or atleast shed light to pros and cons in a structured way.
No facts or analysis only a bunch of questions that you hear everyone talk. However if you notice the headline , it’s a clear opinion. But when you read the article it signals author is ignorant or lazy or both.
You call the author ignorant? Here is the information about the author: “T.N. Ninan is the Chairman of Business Standard Ltd. During a quarter century at the helm of different publications, he has been the editor of Business Standard (where he was also the publisher from 1996), the Economic Times, and Business World. He was also the executive editor at India Today. From January 2010, he moved into non-executive roles. He has been President of the Editors Guild of India, Chairman of the Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Chairman of the Society for Environmental Communication (which publishes ‘Down to Earth’ magazine), and a member of the Board of Trade. He has served on the Board of the Shri Ram School, and is a member of the Indo-German Consultative Group as well as a Trustee of Aspen Institute India. He is a recipient of many awards including the B.D. Goenka award for excellence in journalism. The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund awarded him a Nehru Fellowship for 2013 and 2014. He has received his M.A. in economics from the University of Madras in 1972. “. Now about the article. It is not written for thePrint. His articles get published in the Business Standard as Saturday editorials under the column ‘Weekend Ruminations”. They get published in the Print under a mutual arrangement between Mr. Shekhar Gupta and TNN. Shekharji’s article reciprocally gets published in the BS every Saturday. BS standard for journalism is somewhat higher than the usual stuff. While you are entitled to have your views, please think twice before you write in an abusive tone. It belittles only you not others. Before commenting atleast you should have read the monumental book “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler. My suggestion to you is to read the book at least now and buy and read BS every day. It will enhance your knowledge.
A sane assessment. But the effects of such progress are more far reaching and not always good.
Who will write the new rules? More importantly, for who? Television was a normal feature in the US in the 1960s. It took another couple od decades for it to reach some homes in India. The rate of change has accelerated since. These days technology comes to India as it reaches other parts of the world.
In the second book , The third wave, originally intended as part of a trilogy (he ended publishing more books in the series), he describes the waves thus.
• The First Wave is the settled agricultural society which prevailed in much of the world after the Neolithic revolution which replaced hunter gatherer culture cultures.
• The Second Wave is industrial age society. Key aspects of Second Wave society are the nuclear family , a factory-type education system and the corporation Toffler writes that the second wave gave birth to mass action, standardization and bureaucracy.
• The Third Wave is the post industrial society. He coined many words to describe it and mentions names invented by others, such as the Information age.
Yuva Noah Harari in his book Homo Sapiens, says that ten thousand years ago wheat was wild grass. Farming gave rise to settlements close to farm lands, which in turn forced people to live in close proximity giving rise to unhygienic conditions in the settlements (villages?). Accordingly with each wave of Toffler we can discern also the destruction which it brings along.
For one, since the progress, the brain power of homo sapiens improved while his physical prowess, including more deceases, illness etc., decreased in geometric proportions. We breathe foul air and drink contaminated water. These days children play games digitally rather than in the open fields and while we live and work in an ever-changing virtual world. Bitcoin is a fallout of the virtual world.
But like the TV sets in the 1960s it is an unequal progress. For people who have not held a thousand rupees at a time, bit coin is and will be fantasy for a long, long time. All this will only give rise to a different type of class system while we are still battling to emerge from another one. It may be better for humanity to slow down the progress and not write the new rules as yet.
I salute T.N.Ninan , the most respected business journalist and the founder of the Business Standard, for this brilliant piece. Sadly, not many from the readership of thePrint have taken cognizance of this article, though the consequence of this future shock could be momentous for we Indians too. How India with its bulging population copes with these sweeping changes is matter that requires serious debate, Unfortunately, our views are quite often short term and we are mostly blind to the forces of disruptive nature that can impact the destiny of our nation.
What is the point of this article? It seems more like an arduous effort to fill a weekly column. Meaningless gibberish should not appear in such a forum. What a waste of time!
How much did the author got paid by the government to write this article?
Nice article. Recurrent conversations around relevant topics are important.
Useless junk. It takes real effort to make an opinion or atleast shed light to pros and cons in a structured way.
No facts or analysis only a bunch of questions that you hear everyone talk. However if you notice the headline , it’s a clear opinion. But when you read the article it signals author is ignorant or lazy or both.
You call the author ignorant? Here is the information about the author: “T.N. Ninan is the Chairman of Business Standard Ltd. During a quarter century at the helm of different publications, he has been the editor of Business Standard (where he was also the publisher from 1996), the Economic Times, and Business World. He was also the executive editor at India Today. From January 2010, he moved into non-executive roles. He has been President of the Editors Guild of India, Chairman of the Media Committee of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Chairman of the Society for Environmental Communication (which publishes ‘Down to Earth’ magazine), and a member of the Board of Trade. He has served on the Board of the Shri Ram School, and is a member of the Indo-German Consultative Group as well as a Trustee of Aspen Institute India. He is a recipient of many awards including the B.D. Goenka award for excellence in journalism. The Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund awarded him a Nehru Fellowship for 2013 and 2014. He has received his M.A. in economics from the University of Madras in 1972. “. Now about the article. It is not written for thePrint. His articles get published in the Business Standard as Saturday editorials under the column ‘Weekend Ruminations”. They get published in the Print under a mutual arrangement between Mr. Shekhar Gupta and TNN. Shekharji’s article reciprocally gets published in the BS every Saturday. BS standard for journalism is somewhat higher than the usual stuff. While you are entitled to have your views, please think twice before you write in an abusive tone. It belittles only you not others. Before commenting atleast you should have read the monumental book “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler. My suggestion to you is to read the book at least now and buy and read BS every day. It will enhance your knowledge.
A sane assessment. But the effects of such progress are more far reaching and not always good.
Who will write the new rules? More importantly, for who? Television was a normal feature in the US in the 1960s. It took another couple od decades for it to reach some homes in India. The rate of change has accelerated since. These days technology comes to India as it reaches other parts of the world.
In the second book , The third wave, originally intended as part of a trilogy (he ended publishing more books in the series), he describes the waves thus.
• The First Wave is the settled agricultural society which prevailed in much of the world after the Neolithic revolution which replaced hunter gatherer culture cultures.
• The Second Wave is industrial age society. Key aspects of Second Wave society are the nuclear family , a factory-type education system and the corporation Toffler writes that the second wave gave birth to mass action, standardization and bureaucracy.
• The Third Wave is the post industrial society. He coined many words to describe it and mentions names invented by others, such as the Information age.
Yuva Noah Harari in his book Homo Sapiens, says that ten thousand years ago wheat was wild grass. Farming gave rise to settlements close to farm lands, which in turn forced people to live in close proximity giving rise to unhygienic conditions in the settlements (villages?). Accordingly with each wave of Toffler we can discern also the destruction which it brings along.
For one, since the progress, the brain power of homo sapiens improved while his physical prowess, including more deceases, illness etc., decreased in geometric proportions. We breathe foul air and drink contaminated water. These days children play games digitally rather than in the open fields and while we live and work in an ever-changing virtual world. Bitcoin is a fallout of the virtual world.
But like the TV sets in the 1960s it is an unequal progress. For people who have not held a thousand rupees at a time, bit coin is and will be fantasy for a long, long time. All this will only give rise to a different type of class system while we are still battling to emerge from another one. It may be better for humanity to slow down the progress and not write the new rules as yet.
I salute T.N.Ninan , the most respected business journalist and the founder of the Business Standard, for this brilliant piece. Sadly, not many from the readership of thePrint have taken cognizance of this article, though the consequence of this future shock could be momentous for we Indians too. How India with its bulging population copes with these sweeping changes is matter that requires serious debate, Unfortunately, our views are quite often short term and we are mostly blind to the forces of disruptive nature that can impact the destiny of our nation.
What is the point of this article? It seems more like an arduous effort to fill a weekly column. Meaningless gibberish should not appear in such a forum. What a waste of time!