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Time has changed, human intelligence has grown, technology
has changed over the years and just like child grows from toddler to Man over
the years, similarly Navigation technology has grown over the years, There was
a time when people used to navigate their path through position of stars, then through
direction of air, sailors through direction of the flow of water and air,
explores through magnetic compass, Kings through sun rays or asking people by
word of mouth as they use to travel from one place to another and now we are so
technically advanced that irrespective of whether we are a sailor, an explorer,
adventurer, or a common man who has lost his or way, uses Navigation system to
find their right way towards their destination . The good part is that maximum
times the google maps do provide us with correct navigation and direction
without the help of anyone.
So far so good, but the sad part is , all the previous basic
navigation technologies which were natural in nature like position s of stars,
direction of wind/air, flow of water, sun rays etc. are getting diminished. I
am absolutely not saying that we should not get technologically advanced, but
what I want to say is that we should not forget knowledge related to ground
facts. Reason is that today when we are travelling to an unknown destination
and if suddenly the internet/GP connection fails and your navigation system
stops working, we start feeling handicapped. This should not be the case. This
is only happening because we are growing in technology but losing our roots,
the core knowledge which is the backbone of these advance technologies. Growing
does not mean forgetting the roots and basics of life. It means making your
basics strong and then grows to uplift the society as a whole.
Don’t worry, I am one of you who has lost his strengths on
the roots as I am getting more and more technically advanced and realizing this
as I am writing this article. Let us try to make an conscious effort that next
time when we go out especially for a vacation, let us try to find out the
direction using our basic principles along with the navigation system so that
we don’t panic in case technology fails.
What is important to remember is that roots define us and
technology we build. Just now as I am writing, I realized that recently we were
travelling to a village by our car and were using navigation system for the directions.
After travelling for an hour suddenly our network broke and the navigation
system stopped working. It actually created a bit of panic condition for us because
there was no one from whom we could have asked the direction. Then according to
the direction of the sun, we took our direction and moved ahead for half hour
and finally found a person who could tell us the right direction which luckily
we were already on. Finally after half an hour, the navigation system also
started working and we reached our destination.
Seriously, now it is making me realize that it is so
important what we should be well versed with our basics and traditional methods
of navigation along with the advance technologies too.
