Hello friends, I am back with this new topic. Yes its very interesting and true that actually nobody needs technology and techies who build those technologies. But we make them need us. Yes you got it right. If you are a hollywood movie buff then u guessed it right. In the movie Pirates OF Silicon Valley, Bill Gates tells Steve Ballmer that "You know how it is , nobody needs us but we have to make them need us". This is the core line which is driving whole IT industry. Engineers treat their products's users as lame persons without any technical knowledge. So we engineers just take the advantage of user's lameness.
Assume there is a business which is currently not using any technology and the people who are running that business have no idea about how the technology can benefit them. So they don't really need us they are running it on their own some how and making money. Buts its us engineers who figure out how the the usage of technology can still cut the cost and increase the revenue by improving the productivity. I know there is nothing new in this topic. But I felt its necessary to discuss it in broader view. So when a engineer tells a businessman about how can he make still more money out of his business using technology then this lame person realizes what he was really missing all these days and starts thinking that without that technology he is noway gonna run that business anymore. This is how Information Technology is propagating across all the classes of works in this world.
Its not just about dependency on technology, but even adverse affects on people's lives. JOB CUTS, yes not just recession but evolving IT is the main reason for job cuts in various sectors.
In simple words how this IT industry is driven:--
Assume there is a institution with 100 employees and not using any technology. Later they start using a software system which is an automation of their entire working process. Then management doesn't have to keep 100 people on that job if u have just few operators who can operate that software its more than sufficient. This is how the the costs are cut and job cuts happen. The movie doesn't end here, the engineers who built that software want more and more work, so they analys it again and come up with ideas how that whole process could be made still simpler and efficient by avoiding many complications in existing system. When they suggest it to that business of course the management will agree for that implementation and as the process becomes more automatic and simple less people are needed to keep track of it. After few days version 2.0 will be released and the this process repeats in an infinite loop until there is nothing left to simplify in that system. Don't think after this We don't get any work , We engineers are intelligent people, later we get paid for maintening that software. This is how people are loosing their jobs, as they say, 1 computer can do 1000 people's work.
More than building something Starting to build it is more than important for Computer Engineers. They say "Ideas worth million dollars". but they worth so mcuh only when they are implemented and executed. Your idea can be related to anything or any category of business or lifestyle or socialization. But just htink once, do people really need something you are planning to build for them. The answer is NO. At present such system doesnt exist means they can just go on with their life no matter whether you build your system or not. But key thing here is making them to need it. They should get kind of addicted to or dependent on your invention like a windows , Linux or mind blasting example Facebook. So here what I am trying to say is it doesn't really matter if you have a great million dollars idea, you have to think that Do you have plans of executing it? how are you going to get consumers for your product?. Seriously I am not simply writing something something here. When you go to VC's asking for seed funding for your start up this is what they would look for. they will ask one question "So, Whats the plan, How will you get the consumers for your product?" because they are putting up so mcuh money on that expecting returns from your idea. So your plan should be based on the title of this article "Nobody needs us Techies,Its just that we make everyone need us" along with building your product, build an execution plan also, that's what will take you forward in your engineering..
So this is it for today, I will be back with another brand new interesting article till then just wait...
Assume there is a business which is currently not using any technology and the people who are running that business have no idea about how the technology can benefit them. So they don't really need us they are running it on their own some how and making money. Buts its us engineers who figure out how the the usage of technology can still cut the cost and increase the revenue by improving the productivity. I know there is nothing new in this topic. But I felt its necessary to discuss it in broader view. So when a engineer tells a businessman about how can he make still more money out of his business using technology then this lame person realizes what he was really missing all these days and starts thinking that without that technology he is noway gonna run that business anymore. This is how Information Technology is propagating across all the classes of works in this world.
Its not just about dependency on technology, but even adverse affects on people's lives. JOB CUTS, yes not just recession but evolving IT is the main reason for job cuts in various sectors.
In simple words how this IT industry is driven:--
Assume there is a institution with 100 employees and not using any technology. Later they start using a software system which is an automation of their entire working process. Then management doesn't have to keep 100 people on that job if u have just few operators who can operate that software its more than sufficient. This is how the the costs are cut and job cuts happen. The movie doesn't end here, the engineers who built that software want more and more work, so they analys it again and come up with ideas how that whole process could be made still simpler and efficient by avoiding many complications in existing system. When they suggest it to that business of course the management will agree for that implementation and as the process becomes more automatic and simple less people are needed to keep track of it. After few days version 2.0 will be released and the this process repeats in an infinite loop until there is nothing left to simplify in that system. Don't think after this We don't get any work , We engineers are intelligent people, later we get paid for maintening that software. This is how people are loosing their jobs, as they say, 1 computer can do 1000 people's work.
More than building something Starting to build it is more than important for Computer Engineers. They say "Ideas worth million dollars". but they worth so mcuh only when they are implemented and executed. Your idea can be related to anything or any category of business or lifestyle or socialization. But just htink once, do people really need something you are planning to build for them. The answer is NO. At present such system doesnt exist means they can just go on with their life no matter whether you build your system or not. But key thing here is making them to need it. They should get kind of addicted to or dependent on your invention like a windows , Linux or mind blasting example Facebook. So here what I am trying to say is it doesn't really matter if you have a great million dollars idea, you have to think that Do you have plans of executing it? how are you going to get consumers for your product?. Seriously I am not simply writing something something here. When you go to VC's asking for seed funding for your start up this is what they would look for. they will ask one question "So, Whats the plan, How will you get the consumers for your product?" because they are putting up so mcuh money on that expecting returns from your idea. So your plan should be based on the title of this article "Nobody needs us Techies,Its just that we make everyone need us" along with building your product, build an execution plan also, that's what will take you forward in your engineering..
So this is it for today, I will be back with another brand new interesting article till then just wait...
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