Monday, September 24, 2007

Embracing Technology: A Paradigm Shift

In this era of technology it is hard to imagine any significant group or organization that wouldn't embrace technology. We all see how technology improves our lives and makes things easier. Can you imagine engineers not using computer aided drafting software or accountants not using spreadsheets? It would be silly not to.

Although somewhat different I wondered why Galileo's ideas were so readily rejected by the religious leaders of the time. Many modern day scientists develop other radical ideas that are easily embraced by the masses. I think technology has helped people to accept new ideas. There has been a colossal paradigm shift that technology has introduced to us. In a world where changes in technology crawled along, people couldn't accept change as easily. Now you can spend hours a day learning about new technologies, and this where our paradigm shift has come from.

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