The advent of technology has revolutionized many aspects of
our life not least including our
traditions. Many people believe that we are losing our traditions to
technology. Contrarily On the contrary, I believe that with the right
approach, technology can be used to for retaining our traditions.
There are a lot of traditions that long have been forgotten
including in
our traditional cuisine, costumes, crafts and values. I believe that younger
generations seem to ignore these traditions because they are not well
introduced with these values. Thus, by using the internet for instance these
values can be reintroduced and be promoted religiously
on a large scale. New
generations can learn effectively about our tradition if more information about
them are is published online. More afford efforts should be
carried out to trace wherever the local tradition is still being practiced and
present them out to the world via this technology
by uploading pictures, blogs, videos etc. on websites such as the Youtube,
Facebook, Twitter etc.
Besides that, we can also use technology to enhance our
traditional products. For instance, with the aid of technology certain traditional
costumes, crafts, cuisines can be massively produced. These traditional items
can be recreated and reproduced with modern sophisticated machines with simply efficiently and with a
minimum of fuss. This will attract more people to learn and love traditional stuffs.
Moreover, by incorporating traditional values with technology
we can enhance our creativity as varieties of new products can then be
produced. For example, many new fashion designs are integrated with traditional
values like in Malaysia, fashion designers use ‘batik’, a traditional malay
cloth in their design. This is somehow a way of retaining tradition in
modern style.
By and large, I believe that traditional values will still be
appreciated if we can use technology to take them to another level.
