Monday, July 11, 2016

Gen Ender - Technology

Life in a simplest form can be described as an experience on a roller coaster ride. The experience of the ride will be of fun when others join and experience. When it is accompanied with friends, family and relatives the experience becomes memorable, the joy and happiness becomes endearing. Today equality has come to global agenda,  whereas in the religious books we read that God wanted men and women to be different, yet supporting each other to make life meaningful and the world becomes more beautiful.

Today discussion on gender equality has reached both News room to Board room issue. There are pro and against groups debating the pros and cons on gender equality. Many of the well-known organisations have taken targets and goals to reduce gender gaps. Thank God for his wisdom of not discriminating the gender but providing equal talents. Every year in the academic and competitive results the noticeable trend over the years is girls outperforming boys.  There are studies reported on women losing productive time at the peak of their career for upbringing their children. Organisations have provided special care of extended maternity leave, providing Creech facilities, work from home for engagement and productivity rather than losing the talent. The new aged organisations have stepped ahead though incentive for freezing the eggs scientifically so that at later stage or at the fag end of the career the women could enjoy the joy of children. The thought that strikes is the same joy and Quality Time available for upbringing the children when they are old. Today’s medical research miracle is scientific way of producing the child. This method was developed to unlucky parents who could not enjoy the joy of parenthood. The new aged companies have taken this method for incentivise for earning few more dollars of profit. Are the basic human living principles required to be compromised for few more dollars?

Couples of months it was reported in a leading newspaper of an elderly couple we may say senior citizen aged around 75 years adopting the modern methodology and bearing a new-born. The child was a boon to them and the couple were happy. There were few columns published on the daily newspaper congratulating the couples for their courage and determination for having their own child even at this age. Few more debate forestalling the future of the child as the parents themselves were old and someone is required to take care of them. The debate continued just for rating and sensualizing for a day. The unanswered thought that strikes the mind was how long the elderly couple would live and how would they take care of the child, when they themself need someone to take care of them. Was the decision good enough and ethically meaningful.

Few days back a Bollywood star was congratulated for becoming successful single parent of a baby boy. The film fraternity stood up and supported his courage of being a proud father. The scientific method of IVF and surrogacy was adopted. The proud single parent shared his happiness with grandparents kissing the child. No doubt that this is a good accomplishment for the gender equality, where in the total responsibility of taking care and bringing up the child rests with the father. On the contrary we were raised by our parents and showered love; where Mother had a soft corner and Father had a bit of rough things to teach us about life. Will a single parent be able to provide those two facets? Won’t it be unfair on the child of not treating his/her with the same kind of love which we received during our childhood?

Today we live in a technology and wired world where everything is connected to chips and smart phone are exploiting the nature and basic human needs. Will the technology show empathy and apathy to the new born adopted through technology? As the world moves into developing machines such as robots with artificial intelligence will these robots could be so matured for being emotionally aligned with human requirements on sympathy, empathy and apathy.  With the world wired on Internet of things the future would be children being born on cloud…. 

With work ethics changing from Silent Generation to Generation Z , the Gen ender generation would be imaginative or empowered !!.   

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