This article is going to review the two articles flighted in the herald of 23/07/2010 by Tinashe Farawo who advocated that technological advancement is promoting laziness and contrasts it with the one wrote by Kidwell Dumisani Nduku issued in the same paper of 08/07/2010 which states the reasons Zimbabweans are firing wrong shots instead of grabbing the potential of internet business for national economic development.
Tinashe strongly stand on his stance of opposing technology as it enhences laziness. People especially urbanites abandoned the use of traditional primitive ways of life like walking when going to work, instead of using commuter omnibuses which cause our body to be lazy simply by not exercising through walking. In fact he describes how health enhenced through manual walking to and from work places or to the business centres.
The use electronic lifts when climbing up and down steers doing business routines , instead of using steps to make the body strained and conditioned to hardwork so that they become more stronger. The use of pampers instead of nappies which demand the labour washing ,rather than to just buy lots of pampers and throw them away after served its purpose. These are all clear reasons people decide to be lazy because of technology. Farai goes on further opposing the use of computer when students are reseaching more relevant information to complete assignments instead of traditional books of which most of them now has irrevent information ,the students should strained the whole day crawling all library shelves to get what can only be done by a the wonders of computer technology simply by a click of a mouse.According to Farai the use of electronic gadgets like washing machines ,television,electric cooker etc are laziness enhencers to the urbanites in Zimbawe and the world at large. Although he cited several authorities to support his arguments in the sociologists,medical practitioners,nutritionists ,to consolidate his advocacy that technology is the major agent of contracting diseases like obesity and weaker body is prone to any kind of disease.
The article by Kidwell Dumisani Nduku issued in the herald of 08/07/2010 which reads: Zimbabweans must wake up to the internet business potential . Kidwell points areas where the zimbabweans are missing the target to be the powerhouse in Africa because of how the country developed interms of human capital. Zimbabwe ranked the first African with higher literacy rate ,although computer technology is not included in the ranking system. If ICT is considered Zimbabwe ranked downwards to the 15th 16th position probably because of the slow pace in grabbing the gains of technological advancement.
Kidwell points out that some countries like Phillipines,South Africa and India which are developing countries like Zimbabwe are setting Business Processing Outsoucing (BPO) and contracting centres for its citizens to work online as to generate a lot of income for their respective countries. Kidwell strongly acknowledges that if the Zimbabweans come to their own conscience and realised the importance of providing faster and cheaper internet services to the small businesses and the citizens . The vision has greenlight generate a lot of income like diamond or tobacco on the international labour market which is now popular online than the traditional routes. For this project to be progressive ZESA should provide energy without frequent power cuts and fully powered to be capacited both by those in authority and patriotic citizens. The problem of power cuts will be matter of history gathering dusts in the archives. This strategy take the commitment of the government to priortise and support the ICT sector through related ministries definitely the national economy shall record remarkable growth.
In conclusion Farai 's advocacy against the development of technology is lacking it own gravity to the fact that you can not claim to be a hard worker these days that to work smarter ,dont't opt to use primitive methods and equipments like a hoe when planting crops instead of using well mechanised machines like tractors and planters to plant more hectares to produce higher yields for the nation. Above all you can't sacrifice the use of outdated information to complete a contemporary assignment when there are simple alternatives which are useful to produce a good assignment. Young Farai what is the rationale behind the use nappies which can attract flies and spread diseases instead of using pampers which are well packed and used only once then thrown away.Do you know pampers promote good health than nappies.
I realised what Professor Chetsanga once said, some of us go on discouraging the consumption of GMOs which are cheaper than traditional foods and spread the unscientific news that GMOs are hazardous to our health ,when instead we use penicilin a GMO product for almost three dacades mostly in our hospitals . Above all the use of GMOs is not yet proved scientifically to be
a health hazard food.
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