DailyPost 107
AT THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY & HUMANITIES TECHNOLOGY
Technology and humanities as two distinct entities we have grappled with all our lives. It’s make believe distinction and that’s now neither the techies nor the humanities types have been able to deliver. We live in an enmeshed world and the solutions to our societal requirements should thus reflect the reality of our times. As technology keeps on becoming our DNA, liberal arts and humanities ought to be the both the undercurrent and the value add for this enterprise.
Steve Jobs said technology is not enough. Technology married with liberal arts, humanities yields us the results that makes our heart sink. The world is at the intersection of technology and liberal arts.
Post PC world is radically different from what it was earlier. It is an intuitive world, intertwined in a way we had never imagined, the hardware, the software, the network with our behaviour, feelings & sentiments, our social life and our existence itself. Amazon analysis customer behaviour and Facebook does sentiment analysis. Democracy gets hacked, technology is finally wedded to human reality.
Failings of technology is not because of the technology itself but due to the disconnect it has with the human reality. Truest creativity of the digital age came form those who were able to connect arts and sciences. That is the reality of the digital world, so aptly portrayed in the book, the Innovators, authored by Walter Isaacson.
Understanding of human beings, their behaviour, the ecosystem and their ability / inability to change or reorient is one of the biggest challenges in Cyber Security worldwide.
HUMAN PROBLEMS CAN HAVE ONLY HUMAN SOLUTIONS, TECHNOLOGY BEING A POTENT ENABLER.
Sanjay Sahay