Technology is a double edged sword – It’s a popular quote, but it’s half the story, part told part untold, even at a summary level.
While the benevolent edge of technology is genuinely more shining and gently called ‘disruptive’ when it cuts asunder the status quo in our society for a bright and better future, the malevolent edge seems more like a shadow reaction of the other, and is set into motion silently behind the glare of the other until its cumulative effect gains in enough strength to serve as a tipping point and calls for remedial action.
As holistic treatment is an increasingly louder cry to serve our health better today, so is all-encompassing development of our society to serve the humanity better. Leaving behind someone is leaving our overall prosperity behind.
– Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore
Today, we are all reaping immense benefit from technology. But at the same time, we all are feeling the pinch of it more often than not, at various levels – personal, family, community, and society at large. Before these pinches turn into punches, putting humanity at risk, cautionary and responsible minds, even while championing technology and innovation at their dizzying heights, have been coming out into the open with warnings against catastrophic dangers ahead if we do not become careful and act responsibly now.
Caught in the crossroads of this revolution and evolution, few imaginative minds in Canada and beyond dreamt of walking the rope again after advancing their career in information technology as globe-trotting IT professionals for past few decades, and formed a team called iValley Corporation to relive their career once more in empathy with those who have been waylaid by tech revolutions. Sounds cowboyish? It may, because there is one thing in common between team iValley and the cowboys, and that’s courage, courage to think differently and go alone.