wide open spaces....
xkcd still rules.
Some things I've learnt from personal encounters/trials...
“Experience is the fuel to my imagination, its dissemination, its consumption
for the masses”
“If there is any knowledge far greater then knowing what you love doing, it’s the knowledge of knowing what you don’t”
“If you’re still friends with your ex-girlfriend, she was never your girlfriend in the first place”
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Enough gyaan. Yesterday was interesting with Van Chitgough entering Part 2 of national TV appearances with Barkha Dutt's outstanding talk (I use that characterization flippantly) show 'We the People'. More than my 180 seconds of wisdom, it was the content and the consequent opinions of distinguished leaders punctuating the panel that really shook the foundations of how I assessed the internet, Web 2.0 , so on and so forth...
some key questions that arose from the discussion :
1. how must the IT act meet the Indian Penal code and other defining legislations of the Indian constitution so as to provide clarity and descriptive guidelines for aspects like privacy and justice?
Van Chitgough's Did you know - Stalking is not 'officially' even a crime in India! go figure!, our frickin roadside romeos and stalker by birth freaks had the constitution understood a lot better than our cops! no wonder none of them ever get into any serious shit....
2. Pornography and the case of consent..
With child pornography, internet hijackings and mass distribution of popularly consumed chicanery; the creation of laws that arrest the dismissal or bypass of consent as a pre-cursor to a diverse range of web-based divulgation is top-most priority.
Van Chitgough's Did you know - 54% of e-commerce globally is driven by 'sex'. And here I am talking about web-based marketing as the future of entrepreneurial and small business set ups. Are we looking at the advent of Porn-based internet consultancies as the next big wave? Mckinsey, E&Y, BCG, are you listening?
3. Handhold our children through the maze
Something said last evening that I felt very strongly for was that the 'internet has become another medium for misbehavior rather than actually being the cause'. If the advantages and power of purpose that web 2.0 offers can be acknowledged, so can the destructive elements of such a network. What is more pertinent though is the fact that human nature and the education on morals to our children needs to be even stronger and more widespread than ever before. Technology was always going to make life faster, smoother and provide easier routes for an escape from reality.
In light of 'morals', aren't 'faster', 'smoother' and 'escape' the biggest drivers of amoralistic activity? They were for me..:)
Van Chitgough's Did you Know - 67% adults are not aware of what their children are doing on the internet.
I think its time we got some education going. Seriously. If the media is intent on focussing heavily on the negatives and extremities of web proliferation in our lives then it has to be a combination of mass-based education for our younger and older generations alike; combined with a demystification of elementary concepts surrounding the virtual expanse. Schools, colleges and societal networks need to step up and address this issue before pointing fingers at the extended new muscle for our cerebrum - the internet.
On that note, I think its time for a quick ego search to check if any slanderous comments have been made about me recently..
I promise that's all I run ego searches for;)
Well, sorta...
