Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Who says technology has no emotion?

They say technology has no emotions. It is mechanical and only logic works! I disagree with respect.

Technology carries a lot of emotions around itself. Technology is not something happens by itself. There are millions of people who experienced sleepless nights, missed lunches, and challenging hours in their lives. Whilst creating, designing, implementing, deploying, selling and maintaining technology, many emotions are involved. For example, frustration in code writing, bug fixing; anger for crashing codes; fear of not meeting deadlines, fear of understanding complexity and so on. As a person in technology for many years, I experienced anger, fear, sadness, excitement, disappointment, and love of course.

1. What are your emotions related to technology either as a technology person or a user of technology at work?
2. How do those emotions affect you and impact positive change in our business and our lives?
3. How can we turn negative emotions to positive ones for a better mental health, ie fear and anger to love!

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