| |October 20188THE TUSSLE BETWEEN ME AS A HUMAN AND ME AS A TECHNOLOGIST!By Arvind Singh, Head ­Mobility, Future Group IndiaArvind is a seasoned IT professional and passionate leader with 18+Yrs experience in technology, delivery, program management and building strategy, credited with developing top-notch energetic and innovative teams delivering world class, internationally acclaimed, software applications, products and platforms.I find myself very lucky to be part of the generation who has seen and is seeing the his-toric digital trans-formation from the day of posting hand written postcards that used to take weeks, to video calls which is live and just a touch away.The technology has touched and transformed everyone's life, disrupted the market forcing it for global consolidation driven by customer's value, experience and convenience.One part of me as a com-mon sensitive human around feels-The flip side is the thought leaders putting their brains out, seating in artificially conditioned offices inside the concrete jungles with weather outside behaving ex-treme and becoming often unpre-dictable racing to create miracles by driving technology innova-tions leading to the era of digital disruption, making human skills scarce, increasing the gap be-tween who can afford and who can't even dream and draining out natural resources on the verge of extinction will be dream for the generations to come.Though I am excited as a technologist to foresee the fu-ture where we are headed too, but sometimes feel scared as a Human!Automation, Security, Data Sci-ence, Big Data, Deep/ Gray Analyt-ics, ChatBots, AI, ML, Augmented/ Virtual/Mixed Reality, Robotics, IoT, Blockchain and many more. It's now no more about building applications but innovation to connect everything at a speed with higher agility.Questions that might come to the majority of minds around:· Where is this digital word really headed to and are we not getting surrounded by too much Technology?· Will human intelligence still rule the roost as it is the creator or will it become slave to technolo-gy that he himself has created to make life easy?· Do we really care and bother for the basic needs of the genera-tions to come?· Will we be left with enough muscles and power in our bones to be in control of life, or will it be just the brain working and let all the work left to the robots?expert opinion
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