It’s the morning after, but there is nothing after the morning so I am lazing in my room windows open, door closed; pretty uncommon for village rooms but who cares anyway. This topic has been overdue for some time now and I think there is no better time than the present to present it.
While at school, the most checked noticeboard is the one next to the dining hall. The reason is obvious. Sometimes it happens some notices are left a long time even after the events they were notifying are long gone. However long they are pinned, there are group of people will be checking them out at any one given moment. It’s true that the campus has a lot of people and there is the possibility all have not seen it. However this possibility has been covered as I have observed people go there over and over again even without a new notice.
In a nutshell I wanna say that we as students and by extension human beings have a craving for new things. We will go to the notice board hoping to find a notice telling us the results are out and hopefully we have passed, a letter to be collected or even a free meal for the day. It goes to say that all we want as human beings is subtle changes in the routines of our lives. We don’t want to be like a line graph which can be extrapolated but more like a seismograph.
This has then made me see new things related to that and apparently in each and every part of the society. Consider my favorite pastime; football. Every new season football clubs will come up with a new away kit and slightly modify the home kit while maintaining the colors.
The vehicle manufacturers are looking for more innovative designs for their products and it’s not that they change much but just a different look and feel. The food industry reminds me of a certain spice. The producers made a green package and said there were new ingredients. With a little help from advertising the sales went up.
This phenomenon has however had a negative impact on human interaction. With two people having a relationship of whatever manner an introduction of a third person does not augur too well for at least one of them. One of them might feel attraction towards the third person and the end might not be so pleasant.
I therefore think that the moral of this understanding is that in whatever thing we do we need to adjust how we do them at certain milestones. For a student like myself I could change my approaches every new academic year or semester, for a company every new financial year etc. we should be able to bring in new variables into the picture which are consistent with our present states of life. It’s my believe that coming up with new approaches to things is the basis of invention and this takes us away from the comfort zone. By attempting to change the norm or at least disputing a commonly held truism is the first step towards a much needed paradigm shift.
This brings me to my field. Software developers and vendors have made their income by capitalizing on this. They will simply change the graphical user interface of their software and release it as an improved version. The products functionality hasn’t changed even one bit but only how it looks.
I just wonder how this would work on technical systems if the adjustments were to be automatic. More like the computer adjusting its scheduling algorithm from multiple level queues to time slice depending on the jobs it has or maybe a public key infrastructure deciding to use different encryption algorithm in different networks. Just a thought!
In that spirit I think I have added some edge to my writing over the years.