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But that value was not in harmony with values of rest of the world.
TECHNOLOGY
Technology is the totality of the means employed to provide
objects and systems necessary for human sustenance and
comfort.
✛ The root word of Technology is ‘Techne’, which in Greek
means ‘art’.
✛ So Technology is something which creates an ‘artificial
thing’ or ‘art’, which ‘works’ like the ‘real thing’, for the
material benefit of humans.
✛ Fine Arts creates an ‘artificial thing’, which ‘appears’ or
‘looks’ like the ‘real thing’, for the happiness of humans.
✛ Science is a systematic empirical enquiry for enhancing the
knowledge of humans.
✛ Science explores that which exists, whereas, Technology 6
and Engineering create that which never existed.
TECHNOLOGY :
Values & Anti-values
• VALUES • ANTI-VALUES
• 1.Adds Economic Value to • 1. Causes massive human-
Materials by Products or induced disasters
Processes • 2. Pollution of Environment
• 2. Adds Professional Value to • 3. Depletion of Natural
Humans Resources
• 3. Creates Value of improved • 4. Creates Digital Divides
standard of Living • 5. DEHUMANIZES
• 4. Enhances Perception Value • 6. Makes humans addicted to
• 5. Empowers Action Value Technology
• 6. Provides Health Value
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TECHNOLOGY & VALUE ADDITION
I. An Item in Ripley’s “ Believe it or not”
1. A plain bar of Iron = $5
2. Made as a pair of horse shoes = $50
3. Made into sewing needles = $5,000
4. Made into springs of Swiss watches = $500,000
II. Example of water:
1. City Corporation sells water to Coca-cola = Rs.2.50 / litre
2. Coca-cola sells to Kinley which purifies & sells = Rs.12 / litre
3. Coca-cola Co. makes Coca-cola and sells = Rs.40 / litre
III. Example of Cotton:
♥ Selling raw cotton? Unwise (No Value added)
Selling reels of cotton threads? Slightly better
Selling cotton clothes? Definitely better
Selling cotton ready-made garments? Best ( Highest Value added)
Meaning: ♥ The raw material is not what is important
♥ What is important is how the raw material is made a
Product using Knowledge, thereby adding Value
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GLOBALIZATION & TECHNOLOGY : RESHAPING THE
WORLD
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PEARL HARBO R
Pearl Harbor was a naval base for the United
States on the island of Oahu.
The bomb fell from an airplane named the "Enola Gay" at 8:15
a.m. and exploded 43 seconds later, at 1,900 ft. above the
city. The results were devastating.
The intense heat generated from the bomb ranged from 7200
to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. Thousands were instantly
killed, vaporized from the searing heat. Others were terribly
disfigured with limbs melted from their bodies and skin
peeling off in large strips.
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THE DAY T HE EARTH SHO OK (2 /3 )
The intense heat melted the eyeballs of some who had stared
in wonder at the blast.
"Big black flies appeared and tried to lay eggs on human flesh.
The injured were so weak that they could not brush away
the flies that nestled in their hands and necks" ,
(Doomsday) said survivor Michiko Watanabe.
"A mother, driven half-mad while looking for her child, was
calling his name. At last she found him. His head looked
like a boiled octopus. His eyes were half-closed, and his
mouth was white, pursed, and swollen."
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THE DAY T HE EARTH SHO OK (3 /3 )
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WORLD TRADE CENTER (2/2)
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CYBER C RIMES
Cyber crimes, E-crimes, High-tech crimes or Electronic fraud
are separated into two categories:
1. Crimes committed using a computer.
2. Crimes where a computer or a network is the target.
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SO URCE OF HUMAN VALU ES
(4/ 4)
At tit udes of Mind
A survey was conducted in Harvard University about getting
of jobs and reasons for the same. It has been shown that
when a person gets a job, and becomes successful in it,
80% of the time it is because of his attitude, and only
20% of the time because of how smart he is and how many
facts and figures he remembers.
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2. CLASSROOM TEACHING (3/3)
• Environmental, Constitutional,
Personal-empowerment, Social,
National, and International issues
and Values should be taught in
classrooms and thoroughly
discussed with the students.
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3. PRAYER & Value of Silence(1/2)
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate.
It is a force as real as terrestrial gravity.
As a physician I have seen men, when all other therapies have
failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effect of
prayer. Prayer, like radium, is a source of luminous self-
generating energy.
In prayer we seek to augment our finite energy by addressing
ourselves to the infinite source of all energy. When we pray we
link ourselves with the inexhaustible power that spins the universe.
We pray that part of this power be apportioned to our needs. Even
in asking our human deficiencies are filled and we arise
strengthened and repaired. It could not happen that any one could
pray for a single minute without some beneficial effects.
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3. PRAYER & Value of Silence(2/2)
❋ Scientists have discovered that an Invisible power exerts lot of influence on this
expanding universe.
❋ Is this the primordial intelligence and infinite source responsible for the creation
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universe? --- Let us meditate on that.
4. MEDITATION (2/4)
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5. YOGA For C ontrol Of
Mind
• We hear “be good” and “be good” and “be good”,
taught all over the world.
• There is hardly a child, born in any country in the
world, who has not been told “do not steal”, “do
not tell a lie”,
• But no body tells the child how he can help not
doing them.
• Talking will not help him- why should he not
become a thief ?
• We do not teach him how not to steal;
• We simply tell him, “do not steal”.
• Only when we teach him to control his mind, we
do really help him
• --- Swami Vivekananda (Raja Yoga, Ch. 6)
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6. VALUE-DAY,
Not HOLIDAY (1/2)
• All education is imitation. –Aristotle
The ten commandments of Moses are reduced by Jesus Christ into two ethical value
statements:
- Love your God with all your heart and soul
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- Love your neighbour as yourself.
8. SPIRITUAL CONVERGENCE (3/5)
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8. SPIRITUAL CONVERGENCE(4/5)
Jamshedji Tata’s letter to Swami Vivekananda
• Esplanade House, Bombay 23rd Nov. 1891 • I am of the opinion that, if such a crusade in
favour of an asceticism of this kind were
• Dear Swami Vivekananda, overtaken by a competent leader, it would
• I trust, you remember me as a fellow-traveler greatly help asceticism, science, and the good
on your voyage from Japan to Chicago. name of our common country; and I know
• I very much recall at this moment your view not who would make a more fitting
on the growth of the ascetic spirit in India general of such a campaign than
and the duty, not of destroying, but of Vivekananda.
diverting it into useful channels.
• I recall these ideas in connection with my • Do you think you would care to
scheme of Research Institute of Science for apply yourself to the mission of
India, of which you have doubtless heard galvanizing into life our ancient
or read.
traditions in this respect ?
• It seems to me that no better use • Perhaps, you had better begin with a
can be made of the ascetic spirit fiery pamphlet rousing our people in
that the establishment of this matter.
monasteries or residential halls for • I should cheerfully defray all the
men dominated by this spirit, expenses of publication.
where they should live with • With kind regards, I am, dear Swami
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lives to the cultivation of Science, • Jamshedji Tata
natural and humanistic.
8. SPIRITUAL CONVERGENCE(5/5)
SURAT SPIRITUAL DECLARATION
15th October, 2003, fifteen leaders and scholars of different religious denominations signed '
Surat Spiritual declaration' in the presence of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of
India, for achieving " Unity of Minds", and for creating " Enlightened Citizens" in
India, and eventually in the world.
Universal truths embodied in all religions are very similar and a bridge is to be built to
connect them. Religions are enchanting islands with exquisite gardens full of beautiful
flora and fauna. These islands of un-surpassing beauty and tranquility, veritable oases
for the soul and the spirit, are to be connected with love, mutual understanding and
compassion , in a ' garland project' as described in the " Surat Spiritual declaration".
The ' garland project' consists of five component projects:
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13. VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE (1/2)
In Virtual Reality, you experience something which is not real, but virtual.
❁ VR requires : VR Helmet
VR Goggles
VR Gloves
VR Software and Computer
-Dr.Joseph Murphy
14. T HINK ING NE W T YP ES OF
THOU GH TS(2/ 3)
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14. TH INKING NEW TY PES OF
THO UGHT S( 3/ 3)
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THANK YOU
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