The Information Technology (IT) Industry Fortune

Information Technology (IT) has changed the world a lot better. So many redundant manual services have been automated and hitherto unknown services are being served at a fraction of cost through using IT. In one sentence, IT has become God sent DIVA! If you are in IT field, have been serving people around you to make their life better, you know better what the potential of this field is. However, all said and done, this potential field, known for its efficiency and effectiveness, is dependant on few wealthy countries either for its own development or for the bulky projects. Read further to know How To Takle this problem.

Nowadays, every company wants a slice of the billion/trillion dollar revenues generated through IT. No matter how complex the process is to be coded, companies are hell-bent to make the project successful and generate revenue. By competing against each other, Information Technology companies all over the world have created a healthy competition in providing better services at effective rates. Although a few countries like India, China, etc, have already dominated the field, other third-world countries like Indonesia, Philippines, etc, have also started contributing their best.

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High Technology and Human Development

Some basic premises – often fashioned by leaders and supported by the led – exercise the collective conscience of the led in so far as they stimulate a willed development. The development is usually superior but not necessarily civilized. The premises in question are of this form: “Our level of technological advancement is second to none. Upon reaching this level, we also have to prepare our society for peace, and to guarantee the peace, technology must be revised to foster the policy of war.” Technological advancement that is pushed in this direction sets a dangerous precedent for other societies that fear a threat to their respective sovereignties. They are pushed to also foster a war technology.

In the domain of civilization, this mode of development is not praiseworthy, nor is it morally justifiable. Since it is not morally justifiable, it is socially irresponsible. An inspection of the premises will reveal that it is the last one that poses a problem. The last premise is the conclusion of two preceding premises but is not in any way logically deduced. What it shows is a passionately deduced conclusion, and being so, it fails to be reckoned as a conclusion from a rationally prepared mind, at least at the time at which it was deduced.

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