digital technology among people is a double edged sword

"Expansion of digital technology among people is a double edged sword"

Today’s young people are exposed to digital technology to an unprecedented degree. Modern technology can become an invisible but integral part of their lives. Since mastering technology is almost a requirement for employment these days, this digital lifestyle can be often advantageous, yet technology can turn into a double-edged sword. Digital technology is indeed creative, in the sense that it enables us to do new things that were hitherto impossible, or to do old things better. In the case of the internet, for example just think of the web, Wikipedia and Skype, all instances of technology that have transformed our lives, mostly for the better.

But technology is also destructive in the sense that it destroys or undermines things that are valuable: bookshops and print newspapers, for example and – who knows? – Maybe even institutions such as the BBC. Digital technology has already resulted in a dramatic erosion of personal privacy. And it's enabling things that are potentially or actually sinister – government surveillance on a massive scale and at an unimaginably detailed level, for example; and the growth of a few mega-corporations such as Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook that might eventually mediate most of our communicative acts.

Technology is a double-edged sword, as it has the ability to both liberate and enslave. Technology is changing the nature of work, enriching us, and as companies redefine how and where different tasks are carried out, they require new skills and new employer-employee relationships. However, jobs for others than workers 2.0, the global hyper-skilled are disappearing—this transformation is leaving many people without a job for good.

limit the definition of religion connected with ceremonials which are essentially religious.

"There is nothing extraordinary in saying that we ought to strive hereafter to limit the definition of religion in such a manner that we shall not extend beyond beliefs and such rituals as may be connected with ceremonials which are essentially religious." Dr B R Ambedkar.

Dr. B R Ambedkar as a liberal and as a humanistic-scientific thinker should have welcomed Hinduism as a non-dogmatic, catch-all hold-all of a religion. But he seems to have been influenced by the Christian/ Islamic/ Buddhist models based on rigorously worked out theological systems. On December 1948 when article 13 was under discussion in the assembly, Dr. Ambedkar again made himself clear on the question of personal law. He was of that the personal law cannot be put under the saving clause because such an act would disable the legislature from initiating any social measures whatsoever.  Ambedkar the democratic values are universal in the sense that they apply equally to everyone in principle, for all humans are individuals and all humans have or ought to have equal rights and obligations, and all humans deserve the opportunity to discover their own true talents.

            Religion becomes conceived as a body of doctrines about salvation that the individual can choose to adhere to because he finds it the best, the most rational, and the most suitable for his or her personal needs. The religious principles of equality, liberty, and fraternity make possible a ‘secular’ society in which religion becomes a matter of personal commitment and choice. Many rituals and festivals take place in public, meaning that such expressions of faith are societal as well as individual forms of human behaviour. The similarity in the general patterns of rituals and festivals across cultures and religions is striking. Ambedkar rose above the narrow barriers of religion, caste, language and region and laid emphasis on strengthening the national unity and in the absence of universal human religion these can survive neither unity nor democracy.