Software Reproduction and Drawbacks

We are living in 21st century and we think we are literate enough to know the things around us, science is exploring spaces, deep diving in ocean, making complex tools and machineries but it is still unable to explain our mere origin and existence. There are some questions which are beyond the reach of science and cannot be answered.

Although, there are many mysteries and myths which science is not able to answer but we will discuss one of the aspect which can be answered by science at micro level but looks impossible to answer at macro level.

Many machines have been developed to ease up and automate human work. We believe that machines are artificial, do not have mind, intelligence and capability to reproduce, they just serve the purpose for which they are built and get dumped ultimately, but this perception can be challenged in one aspect i.e. the reproduction. Machines can reproduce, they can increase in size.

They are the part of our day to day life, we tend to ignore this fact that they are also capable to reproduce. Let us take an example of softwareà MS Office which is built by a blue chip company “Microsoft”. Software professionals need to get trained to be efficient in this software; services of the MS suite are integral part of our work. We create excels, ppt, office documents etc for various purposes using this software, but did we ever notice that the copies we are creating are the baby copies of this tool?

That was little complex to understand; let us come straight to the point. An office software is of (600mb-1 GB) and the size of the data (excel, word, ppt) can vary from 1kb-50mb. The data which is created using this software is nothing but the babies. This tool can give birth to limitless babies. It is very amazing to think that 1 GB tool can give birth to countless babies which can exceed its size i.e. we can create 1000 GB data using 1 GB tool. Such an amazing thing it is. This in software world is software reproduction

Drawbacks:
Physically as the human reproduce and multiply in size machines also do the same. With increase in population we started facing resources problem; similarly we face the data storage issues. Once the data grows more than the allocated size it needs additional space to be stored and hence it needs the physical storage. So, we need to provide physical resources for these artificially created babies.

As of now we are running out of solutions to cater the data storage needs, even though our latest “cloud computing” does not serve the purpose because we need physical space to store the data to be stored in the cloud. Definitely we need to look outside our window to hunt for alternative solutions for fulfilling our increasing storage demands.

Cyber Politics

Gone are the days where we use to believe anything communicated to us. Our beliefs were high, we use to trust others. It was the age of trust and beliefs. Now we have entered in to the IT age where everything seems so fascinating and charming and with more and more advancements in the software age our jobs are getting easier. But, did we ever realize that excessive use or dependency on software is eating up our intelligence power and making our brains hollow from inside. Let us look on one of the streams.

With the recent advancements in the software world our dependency on the software has increased drastically. The motto of this age is to go online or go ‘e’ and make this world as e-world. With the invention of Internet world is shrinking, nations are getting closer, cultures are getting blended. Internet has brought our age to a whole new level. We can travel faster than the speed of light, buy the stuff sitting at home, get the reservations done from home, get the bills cleared sitting at home and we can do virtually anything which we haven’t dreamt of before.

We read newspapers which demand the sacrifice of the trees to get the paper on which information can be printed and can be distributed to the masses, the information on the newspapers becomes very old before it reaches us and there is a risk of data getting manipulated in middle of the entire news distribution network. But, now we have an alternative way of getting the information rather than receiving the information in a traditional way i.e. e-papers. Public information and news on the internet can be accessed by anyone who has the access on internet. It spreads faster and has a great influence on the masses which access the information.

But, did we ever think on the darker side of this process. The information which is floating on the internet can be totally fake and irrelevant. With the growing use of internet we have seen the negative use of the internet where multiple disturbing elements tried to embark tense atmospheres by putting up the provocative stuff on the internet. Great wars have been fought in the past wherever there is a clash in the thought process and difference of opinions. Internet is serving the same purpose advancing us to the e-war age and sad but true there is minimal level of governance and monitoring on this

The information on the internet can easily be manipulated and controlled by the individuals who tend to get benefitted from this, for ex: a mobile company which has launched its latest handset wants to sell off the product by creating its false branding on the internet, it can create false reviews and false specification of the product and offers to buy the stuff online. Stakeholders want to stay ahead in the race, so it has started like a Cyber politics of changing and influencing the public thinking power and decisions.

But, end of the day choice is ours to believe or disbelieve the information put up on the internet.