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Gandhigiri in Technology(Doesn't make any sense)

Most of my technocrat friends seem to believe that the Gandhian principles of truth and non violence seem to have lost meaning with changing times. Technology they say is only for the aggressive, ruthless and competent. The gandhian philosophy doesn’t even work in social interactions how can you think of using it in technology. It seems a fair assessment to many but while recently celebrating the centenary of Satyagraha this year I tried applying gandhian ideals to technology and was amazed with the results.
If we look deep into the gandhian thought process it is purely a truth driven platform. It requires a truthful conscience to load a gandhian thought. The input to the platform is similar worldly queries seeking permissions for all our physical activities. It provides its output in terms of applicable activity depending on the version of the gandian software installed. The activity decision may be overridden by other conflicting processes running which involves fear, greed and negative influences. If sufficient mind memory is provided to the gandhain platform it will become powerful enough to override other platforms and the activity will be purely governed by this process.
If we look into our technology driven industries IT for example is purely a fact driven system. The logic flow which is the building block of all technological systems are all based on truth of the laws and matter governing them. A computer system will not work if mathematical logic governing the system becomes false for some reason. So we at all times require truth to be in place for technology to work. This also ascertains the fact there is only the truth that exist. Everything that is not true has to turn to truth and logically it does not have an opposite word. The opposite of truth can be just another truth. So all this time coding and creating programs I was doing nothing but gandhigiri so to say. In fact the time I was not coding as per the principles of gandhigiri the program created was buggy. For a program to run successfully it has to align itself to the syntactic and semantic principles laid down by gandhigiri.

So at least my profession allows me to follow the principles of Gandhi and I am really excited about it. This all boils down to the choices we have while coding or while living. Gandhigiri may seem obsolete but it is the only choice we have or else neither we are coding nor living.

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