Technology, Communication and Progress
by Steve Hill
Communication is the key to progress - why do I believe that?
Just look at the last 150 years or so - mankind has made so much technological progress it is mind numbing and the pace of advance and change has accelerated throughout that time because communication has become easier and more and more encompassing.
Not that there wasn’t communication previously - it has emerged as interesting fact in the last few years that scientific historians have discovered that many projects carried out by the same people saw constant communication between them, particularly across Europe and North America, it was just slow compared to what we are used to,
As communication has become easier and quicker so has the rate of progress, if you call it progress. The pooling of theories and ideas is so much easier, with collaboration across the world now a matter of everyday action.
As suggested not all this progress is welcome - with the pace of change we see errors due to the speed in which we implement new technology. I reckon much of the problems we suffer from climate change are due to not enough patience and though being applied with technologies that were regarded as safe just a few years ago - a little more research no doubt would have revealed the harmful side effects.
By the same token technology can be used to save the situation - at Enigin we use innovative hardware and software solutions to help manage energy in way that many people would not have thought possible or even necessary just a few years ago.
So I welcome technology and I like change, I also work with technology and in communications - I have the bets of all worlds!