Youth and Tech

Youth and Tech  

: by Sudhanshu Meshram

 ↪ When we think of these two words `` youth” and “tech”. What comes to our mind? Youth is a term defining our future generation. And it's very much important to have a detailed and in-depth understanding of these two words and how they are correlated with each other.

Tech 

Now that we are living in the 21st century every kind of service we can easily seek upon. If you are struggling with your ancient backpack, which you were using for ages. And planning to buy a dazzling backpack to level up your impression on friends. You just have to take out your phone, search for new backpacks of your familiar brands and place your order without even moving your butt from point a to b. 

Every single thing is available online, if you want to complete your homework but didn't pay enough attention in class. You will get ready-made solutions in just milliseconds. Now from these examples, you got an overview of the concept of ‘what is tech’. Tech is a compilation of scientific principles which are being applied to make enhancement on our human mankind.

Now we discussed ‘what is tech’ and how it's useful. But one more terminology is being included in the title which is,

Youth 

Once a wise man said, “if you want to have a look at what our future generation will look like, observe the youth first.”

Being a part of youth we all had a great experience. being an Indian when I was 6-8 years of age, I greatly desired the small round marbles. Which we used to play for hours without tiredness. What pleasures we used to get that feeling is out of this dimension. 

Not any stress, nor worries, nor fear nothing. But when we analyze this youth of the 21st century is it similar to what it was 10-20 yrs before? Do you find any similarities between you and the youth?

Now we will stick to the main topic.

What is wrong?

Most of you reading the article has already made out conclusions on your own. But here we have to understand the mutualism between these two aspects which we overlooked upon.

Now here we will talk about the age groups of 2-5 years of age. Hardly being able to speak properly. What are they doing? And what are the conditions right now? If you have kids in your home observe their daily routine, if you don't then take a look at your neighborhood you might have got any occasion to visit your neighbor’s home. And when you take a look at the kids, you will find 5-6 kids focused together on mobile phones. Here the age group varies from 2-18 yrs.

 They don't care what function they have, what responsibilities they should possess.

At the fragile age of 2-3 yrs, toddlers are clingy with mobile phones which radiate the blue rays and can have impactful damage to their eyes.

Why is this happening? Nowadays we rarely see kids playing outside on the streets. In our generation especially in summer holidays I used to wake up early, take my self-made slingshot and go on with my buddies to shoot at birds, mango trees, etc, we used to play marble’s for hours, we used to play tag run, carrom, ludo, cricket, badminton in the night time. Literally, every game which we used to know. But the youth of the 21st century, do not possess any physical activity, nor have strength in them. Giving it a medical perspective the immune system falls weak without physical fitness, stomach functioning has irregularities, fat accumulation will be at an alarming rate which can cause obesity. 

A 4 yr old kid can operate an application on youtube and watch tons of videos throughout the day. Parents think that their kid is born super-intelligent. It definitely is not the case. When he got the access to use the product, the human brain tirelessly kept them engaged with the exploration of the product. In this way, they are learning to use the technologies at such a rapid rate. In 8th std, I remember I had a computer test in which I attempted the question “ differentiate between hardware and software”

I very well remember I wrote “hardware is hard and software is soft”

This level of stupidity I had at my young age and still, it is somewhat left.

Coming back to our discussion now we will focus on more different age groups which I elaborated on in the next segment.

Intricate condition

Now to understand this segment we will take examples of the age group 11-20 yrs. To which I belong too. Now we all know how addicted the youth is to technology. They are 100 times better in this field compared to their school professors. What makes mobile phones so addictive? Is it social media? Is it games? Or is it something different?

Why are academics, sports not so addictive compared to smartphones? There are so many opportunities in these 2 sectors which can change our way of living forever. 

Still, youth chooses to invest his time into social media, gaming, tik talks, and all stuff

The reason behind this is,

1. Instant rewarding.

The science behind this I got to know from a youtube channel called “ civil beings” which is run by an ex-IES officer. He said in one of his videos that playing video games on consoles, smartphones, and PCs gives us an instant reward in the form of a score. The more you score the more “ dopamine” your brain will release to give you pleasure. Our brain is addicted to this pleasure. He demands more and more, “brain’s stomach can never be filled in the food is dopamine,”

Gaming companies do this on purpose, they will fix some gifts at a certain level of the game which will seduce us. It will attract us so much we will fall into its loop.

Speaking on the topic of gaming, I myself was a PUBG competitive player. Played for about 6 months which I got from a pandemic. I very well understood the mechanics of the game and how it sets traps. There are RP levels up to 100. In between these levels, there are gifts such as gun skins, player outfits, etc. which attract the players. To reach outfits and skins one has to go through certain missions to achieve that, if he fails the first time, he will again try for the 2nd time and keep on trying until he reaches the level to claim his gift. 

This develops an addiction and once they get gifts, the bulk of dopamine is secreted in the brain. As I previously mentioned, it's impossible to finish the brain's hunger from dopamine.

Not only games but social media too. Girls and boys at adolescent age have an addiction to this drug. Whenever they post a picture their brain can’t live in patience. They will keep on checking thousands of times that what likes and comments they received. The concept on which these loop works is called instant rewarding. Whereas in academics and sports, first, you have to practice, then apply for a club, then play matches and then receive an award. This doesn't happen in the tech world. Everything is right at the spot, within the blink of your eyes, your rewards will be received so as the dopamine.

2.  spoon-feeding

You already know the popular term “ spoon-feeding.'' This terminology is used for the babies which are being fed by their moms. The babies don't need any effort in getting those food materials. They just need to open their mouth and digest it.

From this example, you very well know whom I am referring to “baby” too,

What will happen if a baby’s mom continues spoon-feeding for 6 years? Now if the baby’s mom will stop feeding him and tell him to eat on his own. 

Despite being 6 years of age will the baby know how to eat following ethics? If a boy is daily traveling to school with his dad on a bike, and one day the father tells “son I am tired, I want you to ride the bike.” Will the boy successfully drive the bike without being hospitalized?

These examples I portrayed gave you a brief explanation of my thoughts.

In the beginning paragraph of tech, that a highschool guy can easily complete his homework by just one google search.

Now here the baby is getting the spoon-fed services. And on the examination day how will you expect that baby to eat on his own. Coming back to homework, it is given by our teachers to make sure the students are fully revised on the topic they studied. If they had difficult times, they used to open 10-15 guides and digest books to search for the answer. What used to happen is that student’s eyes used to fall on a different set of similar questions too. Now that everything is spoon-fed, the furtherance is in dilemma, Abetting is devastating the functional capacity of contemplativeness in Youth.  

CONCLUSION 

This conclusion is not of the intricates, but this conclusion is of the segregation and clearance of beliefs and thoughts. We Succeed in Cracking down the complexities and understanding mutualism between two mega factors. Now what is to be done is still on the waiting list, perfect opportunities will hit, and when they… we better respond with our knowledge.