Too long. Too boring. Too dragging. It is a world which believes in zero waiting time. It is a generation that has zilch patience. Everything has to be as of yesterday. It is almost the Arabian night tales of Alladin and the lamp.

There the doors had to be opened on a clap. Here the orders have to be entered in a click. Fast tracks are slow and fast forward is a crawl. The Gen Zee is more like the Generation Zipping that wants to flash through life. This has created what I call the Generation I, i.e., Generation Insta.

There are advantages. It has in many ways really expedited the productivity. AI (artificial intelligence) now gives you readable, reasonable information on click. This mode of intelligence has put understandable fear in the millennials and earlier generations but is actually an enabler in many ways.

The speed of work is ever speeding. The real challenge is to harness these life speedometers in such a way that human intelligence keeps ahead of artificial intelligence.

The fact that human brain needs to be scratched, stretched and stimulated to keep it growing is the challenge. The brain is an attention muscle. This muscle expands and strengthens when pushed, provoked and exercised.

The amazing ability of the brain to focus and convert impossible to possible is the real difference between man and machine. What is happening is that brain is being diverted and distracted more and more.

The attention spans are decreasing. Attention spans can range from 2 seconds to over 20 minutes. The average human attention span decreased........

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