Design Thoughts

Every passing day the number of devices lingering in the luxury of our homes has increased. Not long back TV and radio were the monopoly, but with the onset of technological advancements the intrusions of devices in our lives has plummeted massively. However what is interesting to see is that these devices are not just mere objects of technological advancements, or machines which help us do things, they are somehow an extension to our identities. Going away from what they traditionally are supposed to do i.e. take care of us and our needs, these shiny intelligent objects in-turn make us take care of them. Say for instance the very daily chore of "Charging your devices", such a chore never existed around 20 years back. If you were to draw a parallel devices of today are more like pets. Just a few days back i even heard a car company advertising " It loves you back", and thats what is happening, we are dealing with a modern day pet like scenario. So we feed our ...

The very idea of the term Management assumes that there is a need to manage things and there arises a need to control a set of people or organization.  A sense of power arises naturally when a scene of a certain set controlling a certain other set comes into action. The question then is, how far is such a disperse practice of separate managing entities required and in what cases is it productive. Will the workplace of the future be still dependent on hierarchical management systems working on authorative pattern of management? Or will we transcend towards a more self managed and contributive world, where each one of us becomes a manager ourselves? It cannot be denied that in places of group activities the focal point of management helps organizing of human skills and workflow. How does this change as we move more towards virtual management of human skills? and what quotient of authority is then required to control such social dynamics? With recent emergence of virtual social s...