The
technological advancements in an era are the fruits of the great minds who
envisioned it. When people thought that the most useful things on the planet to
aid them sustain a living were wood and stone, there was the birth of the Iron
age. We might speculate that those were accidental events like the fire sparked
of flint stones, but to make iron spears and bars from iron ore, would not have
been an easy joke. There would have been
people who thought about it day and night.
In every
era there were milestone discoveries and inventions like iron; electricity,
electric lamp, steam engine and aircraft to name a few. In these cases did people have manuals or guidelines
to have them produced? All of them where the products of human imagination. I
am not going to debate on who invented what or how, the fact that they were
made from nothing makes them so special. I guess no one is less imaginative
than any other. It just the matter of how we train our minds from an early age.
To prove
that everyone has awesome creative or imaginative powers here is a demo.
“‘Isn’t it
that the miss universe? Oh my, I forgot her name.. .’ whispered Daniel almost
putting his mouth into Sam’s ears. Sam jumped in excitement and shouted, ‘Miss
universe, where? Where?’ On hearing the scream, the modest beautiful young lady
wanted to get off the place and moved swiftly towards the entrance. She moved
out of the shop so fast that she stumbled over a smart young man near the entrance
to the shop ……………………………………………………………………………………………………….. “
Now since
you don't have the rest of the extract it’s left to your creative skills but
you can find what I wanted to say in the story a little latter in the blog.
If you ask
me does this above scene have any relevance to the content of the blog? Yes is
the answer. The information presented here are like the facts present in a given
area of research, so discovering or inventing something is like completing the
scene.
“‘Isn’t it
that the miss universe? Oh my, I forgot her name..’ whispered Daniel almost putting his mouth into Sam’s ears. Sam
jumped in excitement and shouted, ‘Miss universe, where? Where?’ On hearing the
scream, the modest beautiful young lady wanted to get off the place and moved
swiftly towards the entrance. She moved out of the shop so fast that she
stumbled over a smart young man near the entrance to the shop. The young lady
felt really bad for crashing into blind man and apologized. She helped him to
get up and get a taxi. “
I know that
was such a bad scene that I cooked up, but the fact is there is so much major
information which is unknown in a given area of research so considering all
that into the creative outlook, will help us solve most of the problems of the
present age.
If you are
still not convinced that you are creative enough to write a better scene than I
did, I just have one question. How did you manage your parents when you played
till late night at school and went back home late?
Even I
really wasn’t convinced when people around me always said that when we are
facing a problem we are sitting on a gold mine of solutions. I always used to murmur,
“You fool, you should have my problem then you won’t be telling all this crap
to me.” At one point, I realized they were correct and I was totally wrong in
the way I saw the problem. I am not telling this just because I got up one fine
day and found an answer to every single problem I have, but it’s because when I
think of a problem now, thousands of possible answers just start running across
my mind.
Those magical
words, Why? What? Where? Who? How? Why not? What if? Most importantly the last
two, can make so much difference to the way we think.
Have we
thought how those crazy people in the 16th did and 17th century,
found out that the Earth was spherical and that the Earth was going around the
sun? Of course they had good analytical thinking,
analyzing facts about the shadow on the moon and all those stuff but they never
had satellites capture pictures on the solar system. It’s mind blowing amount
of imagination.
I wanted to
write about this after mulling over the fact that there haven’t been great
inventions or discoveries that have come up in almost half a century. It can be
speculated about what I say as ‘great’.
Newton’s laws, Edison’s lamp, Darwin’s origin of species, Einstein’s
Relativity theory and things like these which are indisputably great landmarks
in science.
Something
ground breaking has to happen other than the wars which are a regular happening
these days, which will go down in history as the accomplishment of this era. I
am not downgrading the imaginative powers of this generation which has produced
the most number of learnt people on the planet than ever before. We are
creative but our imaginative powers are just focused in so much available information
and are trying to make minor changes here and there and want a Nobel Prize for
it. We are allowing our powerful mind just to think within this range which is
very safe to play with in science. We need to take our focus off this information
and climb on it to have a better view of the universe around us, which has so
much to teach us.
If we
change our perspective towards science, not just work for a Nobel prize but
work for a society at large we might have much better milestones to talk of
from this present age.
