Why We Should Stay Relevant In A Technologically Updated And Fast Moving World


The tech advancing world
The modern moving train/cnn.com
When it was said that things are no longer how they used to be, some people were finding it a bit hard to understand. The situation is changing without any apology to anyone irrespective of who we are or may claim to be.
The tech world is having so many things turning around for good around the world whether some chose to follow along or not.

Talk about the methods of communication, the way we travel, how we buy, how we sell and virtually how we do everything today, all of them have been updated and upgraded for good.

The days are gone when we used to have things done through bricks and walls; using our heads to break walls all in the names of proving how strong and how capable we are when it comes to having some certain things done.

The Rate Of Changes That We Have Been Witnessing So Far

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COMMUNICATIONS:

 Before now, communicating with friends and family members who are far away from us used be to through letter writing, and that is for those who are a bit learned and could afford the often time cumbersome stresses of post offices and patient enough to wait for how long the letters take to get to the recipient and if it requires reply, that again is another thing on its own.
Modern tech
Suri woman with lip plate and a mobile phone/gettyimgaes.de
 But today and with the advent of technology, communication now goes with the speed of light to the extent that one would be bound to speak louder in communicating with a close-by person than with someone millions of miles away. With the use of various forms of chatting, you can have whatever you want discussed with anyone within a twinkle of an eye at some close to nothing cost.

TRAVELING/TRANSPORTATION:
Modern tech
Old method of transportation/ecotippingpoints.org
  Before now it used to be on Camels, Horses, Donkeys, and by foot but now, through the power of technology, humans are even competing favorably with the birds in the air, wales in the oceans, and some fastest land animals when it comes to various and superb means of traveling to places of interests.

MONEY TRANSACTIONS:

 Money related issues were handled in various crooked methods but none has come close to what we have today as business transactions are today being carried out in many forms that we never of even dream of. All these where as the results of what technology has made possible.
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New way of money transactions/mysanatonio.com
 Before now we go to the banks at the risk of our life dodging and hiding from the armed robbers just to deposit our hard earned money or to withdraw same and pay for some services. But today, you have no business with the risky transactions of physical cash as you can conveniently do your online transfer and pay for whatever services rendered to you by pressing the buttons of your mobile phones.

The simple fact is that we cannot deny it anymore whether we like it or not, the trend is moving at a steady pace and is being improved on daily basis just to accommodate the quests of the millions of people who have come to know the values of doing things technologically.

All of the above are what almost everyone of us has known before now or may haven't known but this very post is having it projected before everybody that technology is the way to go to have things done with ease!
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The faster trend of today's world/ReflexERP.com
While this is not the first time that you would be reading about the modern tech related article in this blog, I have to continually do this to create enough awareness because many people in some parts of Nigeria and probably other African countries are yet to see where the new trend is going.

It is high time we learn to follow things up accordingly and stop trailing continually behind every inventions as the so called third world country. The modern tech has come to make so many things easy for us but many among us are still looking at it from afar off and are bearing whatever consequences arising from doing that.

The Need For This Post

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This very post was born out of my concerns for those who are still doing things the old ways and the problems they go through. Let them come out of their shells and get upgraded in life and do things in accordance by saving themselves a whole lot of things that could possibly go wrong as the results of doing things the outdated ways.

Take for instance the online stores in Nigeria today like KONGA, JUMIA and the rest of them that has taken it upon themselves to leverage technology for the benefits of all in a win win situation.

You have whatever you want to buy brought to you in any place of your choice at no extra charges simply by pressing the buttons of your phones. By so doing, the stresses of having to embark on some unnecessary journeys with the risks of road accidents and robbery attacks has been taken out of the way to some reasonable extent if not completely.

What about disposing some used items that one may no longer be in need of? That as well has been made easy by the modern tech because you can log on to places like OXL and have your items listed for the interested buyers for free and make some extra bulks without stepping out of your house or worst still, paying others to have them disposed for you.

Benefits Of Online Shopping 

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 Some say that it is cheaper to continue doing things the old method but one thing they fail to understand is that they stand to gain in the long run by dealing with those companies that buy things in bulk and having it distributed to them the end users at some prices little above what they could have gotten it by themselves.

 While I may concur that not every things could be ordered online by every body, at least for for now, that does not rule out the possibilities for people that are capable of doing it. Besides, what really does it take to have it done?
....Absolutely nothing per say because even as I write this, there are those who buy everything they use at home online.
online shopping
Online shopping/linkedin.com
 In case you don't know, there are people who buy their foodstuff online and they say it's better off than walking about in the open markets all in the names of shopping.

Another added advantages of getting your food stuff online is that some extra-cares are always taken by the online merchants  to make sure that nothing less than the best is shipped to the demanding customers because they know very well that they could go in for it, if anything go wrong with what they supplied to their customers.

 At least we are still Africans in the African markets and you know what that means, anything you are buying is at your own risks be it some products with fake names or some with updated expiry dates...etc.

As I write the above sentences, another one came to my mind and that is buying some fresh meats in the open markets in Nigeria...gush! See Flies in the thousands perching and spreading all sorts of diseases.

Permit your mind also to wander through some slaughter houses and see how unkempt and smelly those places are usually is and littered with all the imaginable items stained with bloods.

 In case you don't know by now, you can get hygienically prepared meats and other food items like stock fish etc brought to your home and pay at the delivery. Check that out here. 

Those buying electronics or things of that nature, would be doing themselves enough disservices by going to the dealers by themselves. The benefits of ordering it online far outweighs whatever little changes they may save by going to the shops themselves.

If you buy things and has to return them for some defects later on based on your warranties, believe me, the way you would be attended to would be different when compared with the companies that buy in bulks.

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 They will answer them with enough respect and prompts than when it's just an individual complaining of what he bought some weeks or months ago. In addition to that, because of how easy the modern technology has made the spreading of information, all the companies are doing everything possible to have their reputations well guarded and protected. An advantage!

The points here are very simple and we stand to gain a lot by following things up as they come instead of relying on the old and archaic methods that the whole world is now  moving or have moved away from.

IN SOME GENERAL WAYS TOO

With modern tech, almost all the things that were before now in disarrays has come together to make life more easy and accessibly too. Before now, though it has been enjoyed for long by the westerners.

 To listen to the news for example, we have to own a radio or simply depend on those that could afford the daily newspapers, or better still to belong to (FRA) at various newspapers stands at some bus stops.

NEPA or PHCN is not helping matters either. Due to the constant darkness that they regularly throw people in, the only means of lightning up ones roadways in the dark is - I better pass my neighbor - owned by few affluent neighbors as the name implies, while the average ones in the neighborhoods make do with candles with all the horrible stories emanating from it.

But now, lo and behold, the modern tech has made it possible for even the elderly ones in some thick villages to own handset doubling as all in one! They have radios, torchlight, memory cards to record and even cameras to capture things as they are happening.

Even the word of God has become more accessible through phones for those who downloaded the bible into their handheld devices.

Added to these wonderful features is the internet enabled ones which practically make almost everything possible with the pressing of the buttons! Wao...tell me, isn't that wonderful of the modern tech?
online shopping
The ease of online shopping/3benefitsof.com

  EMBRACE THE CHANGE

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Do not say that your fathers or mothers did this or that and succeeded in their own time. They did whatever it was that were peculiar with their own times and that is the major reasons why you have to embrace the current changes and have things done in some more better and profitable ways.

Technology has come to stay and come what may, it has come but the question now is, what are we doing about it? Are we still apathetic towards it?

We better not be but rise up to embrace the wonderful changes that has come to make life better and grow up together with it because tech is certainly where things are facing now and in some distant future to come. Happy tech age to you all!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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