Information technology coupled with
internet connectivity has flooded each connected human mind with information
galore, apparently unmanageable by any person, thus, forcing everybody to
remain limited to dealing with information of his/her particular interest. Even
this information base is so much multifarious and multifaceted that the person
is required to manage and categorize it intelligently to avoid an information
chaos around him/herself.
Before this advent of information galore,
most of the persons were involved in their ordinary professions, like
engineering, authorship, artist, farming, etc requiring their unidirectional
attention, skills and expertise. Though, skills in these professions are still
important but fewer persons can manage their lives well with such unitary
skills in the age of information flooding. Human brains need to be retrained to
face the new challenges of information age.
Data Mining
Searching, selecting, storing data and
putting it in an ordered way with respect to some particular usage is called
‘data mining’. Information serves no useful purpose unless it is made use of, else
it works burden on a donkey’s back serving not purpose of the donkey.
Therefore, every data mining activity need be directed towards a particular
application of the person’s interest.
A basic information base may be ordered in
different ways to serve different purposes
Predictive Analytics
One important application of information
base is to find out the trend of changes
taking place in the subject environment and predicting what is going to be the
shape of things in the near, middle and far futures. This usage is called
‘predictive analytics’. Now, most of the professionals need such analytical
skills to remain updated and competitive in the modern age of information
galore. This analytics proves highly useful in making future plans to make them
feasible, implementable and successful.
Through predictive analysis, even a plan
could be assessed for what the outcome of implementing the plan shall be in
different time-frames and with different circumstantial factors. These
operations inform the analyst whether a certain plan be implemented or not, and
if yes, with what changes and circumstantial factors.
Towards Super-humanism
Though human life was running smoothly even
without multiplexed skills as are needed by the today’s information age, these
skills are not superfluous. These add new dimensions to human life as its
progress to a higher level than before. This higher level may be called super-humanism
in its own right for its being a superset of earlier humanism of unitary
skills.
But this does not mean that all
human-beings having multifarious skills needed by the information age shall be
super-humans. Another primary constraint of reaching this higher level of
humanism is of being a humanist first, which means the person to be bound by
humane morality and social discipline. The path to super-humanism is open to
all.
