The school has just given me a tablet pc in supposed preparation for next year's IP lessons. I'm supposed to self-learn this marvellously minute miracle of computing technology.
The first thing that came to my mind wasn't gratitude or excitement at a new 'play-thing' (yeh, I'm an ingrate) but an incisive irony: as technology shrinks in size but expands its capabilities by magnitudes, man's problems increase in unfathomable measures - in several hundred folds.
It's reflected from a simple, minute fact such as how this little gimmick does not even have the most basic of a CD-Rom drive nor a disk drive. To perform such compatible tasks, more effort and trouble is needed to source and plug in an external drive.
I'm amused at how this reflects life. The more successful we become, the more insignificant we are; the more advanced we are, the more primitive we become ... And the school reflects that very paradox. The infrastructural changes happening are an advent to a new era in educational philosophy and possibility. But the 'heart' of the school - the people - have become more primordial ...
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