Modern Technology & Employement (PART-II)

Technology Advancements-A rootcause of Independent Enterpises:

As things stand today, the employment opportunities may shrink for those who are ‘rolling stones’ but vastly expand for those who keep pace with the turns and twists of technology in the day-to-day human quest, aspirations and achievements. Even in the creative corridors, machines may move in to give a concrete shape to human intuition and imagination. The way technology is entering into our lives, finding employment with the ordinary or general degrees would not be child’s play. Expertise in new areas of exploration and exploitation, where problems and possibilities are likely to co-exist, the chance of cornering a job or starting an independent enterprise would go up manifold.

A change in attitude towards both work and life style and the increasing use of modern gadgets like the computer, fax, copier and even mobile phones, would enable enterprising professionals to start an independent set-up in comfortable home surroundings also. Under the increasing influence of technology, the educated wife also become more compatible and co-operative to her husband whose business operations are being done from residential premises. It goes without saying: “Today everyone wants a computer. If the executive in the West is already a walking office, in “India, office gadgets are gearing up for going home. Obsolescence, caused by technological advancements, means products are becoming sleeker, more sophisticated and compact by the day.”