What are the next-generation technologies? The short answer is "slight immortalization" and "automation" technologies. What is the relationship between immortality and technology? Let us figure it out. The technologies that enable us to immortalize a moment, an incident, or anything by video or audiotaping, text or images, or other processes are called immortalization technologies. The process is called immortalization. These technologies are already with us, and the world is only advancing toward them. We all know about automation technologies. I am not planning to change the definition. I am just planning to apply this in vast areas—artificial intelligence is the key to it.
We need to develop Artificial Intelligence to work more effectively in different sectors. Let's see a futuristic example. Automation is getting a driving license. Is it possible? Imagine an area monitored by an artificial intelligence-based camera. There are two parts of that area. One is the practice zone, and the other is the examination zone. In both cases, simulation technologies will be used.
A person will go there and show his identity through a scanner and pay the bill. Then he will get an examination serial. First, he can practice in the practicing zone, and then enter the examination area. In the examination area, he will be given tasks to complete, and artificial intelligence will monitor the movements of that man judge his performance if he is worthy of having a driving license or not. Human judges can be added for additional purposes.
You can quickly figure out the application of "Slightly Immortalization and Automation technologies," but I would love to mention one. This can reduce corruption. As it requires no personal communication between the service seeker and the service provider, corruption can be reduced with these technologies' help.
Now, let's talk about our education system. First, we should keep the current education system where we physically appear at the institution to learn. Because there in the institution, we do not just learn academic lessons; we know many other essential things like Etiquette and manners. Moreover, as social beings, we need to socialize. So, our education system is alright. Believe it or not, the whole world is heading towards this 'Slightly Immortalization and Automation' process.
If we want to compete with the world, we shouldn't stay behind with just papers and pens; we also need other stuff like smartphones, laptops, and desktops. All we see today are technological developments, and if we adapt to them, we will stay caught up. So, we must upgrade our education system with computer technologies and update our education so that the students can cope with the next technological revolution.
Our ancestors used their brains to calculate mathematical terms manually. Now, we are using calculators instead of doing that automatically. Why not our next generation use smartphones or computers to calculate or for any other essential things? If Google can answer a question, maybe we should not memorize that answer next time. We should ask Google. Perhaps an age is coming where people might say we don't store information in our heads anymore, but we keep them using technologies. Now, we store them sometimes in our heads to analyze them. Here people are paid to think and explore but not to work because of the advancement of Immortalization and Automation technologies.
When the rape cases were rising in our country during the pandemic, I wanted to file a case against pornography in the International Court. I ended up being a fool to find out that only the country Heads can do that. A psychologist would know about the subconscious mind and the effect of pornography on it. If we want to upgrade our education system with technological support like smartphones, laptops, or desktops, we will have to tackle many issues like this and many others. Don't say it's impossible to do so with an excuse, please.
Let's discuss another important question. And that question is, "What do we want from our students?" First, we want them to be morally developed. We want to be honest. We want them to be helpful. We want them to learn all the Etiquette and manners required. So, we want them to be ethically well-developed. And then, we want them to be well educated. We want them to be coped with the next technological revolution. From my sight, if morning shows the day, then maybe childhood shows the man. Recently I learned about adding psychologists to our educational institutions.
I may support that but in a different way. Why not add psychology to our education not as a subject or subjective teacher but as a system? Children, we have heroes we follow. Some follow our Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Sm.), some follow one of the four Khalifas, and others follow their religious Prophets and hero. Some take all; some might take their father, mother, brother, sister, or other heroes and follow them.
But on the contrary, some might want to be the opposite kind who needs to be psychologically reversed. So, we need to have some authorized heroes to follow. Or we need to be psychologically diverted to follow the right hero. So now, we might hope to achieve the goal of ethically well-developed generations.
I have heard this many times, why must every student receive higher education? I explain why they should not receive. Other countries export weapons, technologies, and many other things and earn billions of dollars. We will send the best programmers, web designers, web developers, IT experts, engineers, doctors, and others. You know the term "Divide, and conquer."
We must achieve the crown jewel, and the crown jewel of a developed country is its ethically well-developed and well-educated nation. We should invest everything we have to accomplish this. It will not be meaningful if we reach the stage of a developed country without this.
Md Golam Sharoar Saymum, Student of Daffodil, International University, Department of Computer, Science, and Engineering, Email: [email protected]
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