Technology

“We are only just a few nanometers away from the starting line of the seemingly endless advancement, a modicum away from the discovery of fire, and a million light years away from the end point.”

                Humanity has come to an era of contemporary revolutions – a century wherein its ancestors had once dreamt. Hundreds of years ago, man absolutely doubted his own capability which was clearly manifested on the 17^th century belief that metal, a material of rigidness and resilience, would never fly or soar the skies. However, towards the end of the century, the idea was defunct, because of man’s perseverance, ironically speaking, which the Wright Brothers had shown. Humanity itself ended the period of ersatz sorceries through scientific enlightenment.

                Technology, in layman’s term, is the application of science, a much broader field of knowledge. Historically, mankind is continuously seeking for ease in his labours. The invention of the steam engine by James Watt was one of the pioneering innovations of human existence. This allowed several other “engineers” to spearhead the advancement of technology like the first-ever printing press by Johannes Guttenberg, the men behind the development of computer namely Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz, Blaise Pascal, Lady Ada Augusta Byron, Charles Babbage, etc. These served as the building foundation of today’s unceasingly ending search for man’s work to be pacified.

                Human technology is similar to an asteroid travelling across the vast universe, drifting through the infinites of the unknown relative to time and space. Across the cosmos, the asteroid’s structure is progressively adapting to suit its environment and its needs, colliding with other celestial bodies which may or may not alter it path. But on the other way around, technology differs from it too as technology never stops. The pursuit for development will never cease as long as humanity is craving for its betterment.

                Nowadays, with the invention of wireless communication, man has stepped-up the engines of technological revolution, boosting it towards the zenith of total ease through international talks and continuous understanding but still is an end of the tunnel never seen. Who knows, within the 17-stories if the FEU – Institute of Technology the next pioneer will finally reach the light?