‘Knowmatics’ is here; IT’ll soon be junk
KOZHIKODE: Are you tired of browsing through a bundle of data from the sites for getting a few lines of ‘knowledge’ on a particular topic?
Relax; here is a new technology, which enables you to gather the exact piece of knowledge you are searching for.
‘Knowmatics’ – defined as the mathematical and engineering study of the structure, representation, communication and updating of knowledge, is emerging as a new technology to replace Information Technology.
The new theory is getting ready to develop itself as a new branch of science and an answer to the millions who waste their time and energy searching sites or spending a lifetime for studies in one subject and gather very little knowledge.
“Knowmatics’ and ‘Knowledge Technology’ are described as post-Information Technology disciplines,” says Raju Mathew, Proponent of the theory, who is a retired head of Library and Information Science, Calicut University.
Raju Mathew alias R M Mathew, who has spent quarter of a century for the research, has set up a world body – International Forum for Knowmatics and Knowledge Technology – and presented his ideas before UNESCO.
Mathew runs a ‘Knowledge Society’ and last month he got an assurance of all help from UNESCO to go ahead with the project.
He felt more honoured when the President of India, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, contributed a paper for the seminar held on the Calicut University campus in May this year, in which the birth of ‘Knowmatics’ was declared officially.
According to this theory, KT (Knowledge Technology) will not only replace the data-based IT (Information Technology); but would provide innumerable job opportunities to the youths in our State.
“We could train our graduates and post-graduates to enable them to do this knowledge gathering and making it a ‘package’ or ‘module’, which would be of greater demand in future,” says Raju.
“We could develop ‘Knowmatics’ – a mix of knowledge and Mathematics – as an industry, which causes no pollution. I have forwarded a three-point proposal to this effect to the Chief Minister and it is under the consideration of the Cabinet,” he adds.
According to Raju, the software exports from Kerala would crash in the next five years because of total mechanisation.
“In future, we wouldn’t earn our bread through industry or agriculture, as we are becoming more and more conscious of the environment and pollution. It is here that the possibility of Knowmatics lies,” he says.
“South Indians, and especially Malayalees, have the most powerful brain in the world, which can gather and stock all sorts of knowledge and that is why the world-famous IT companies are coming down here,” he says. |
