Consume less resources, experience more.

Every day things are happening around us and we are consuming a lot of content. It could be material, spiritual or behavioral or something else. As a human being, we have senses and ability to interpret those senses to content for other humans to understand. Question is "Are we experiencing all the content consumed?" May be not!

The IT industry is going towards an ironical turn which descried in a story where a man is sitting on a wrong side of branch and cutting it. If he succeeds, he fails.

We are looking at legacy as bad and always try to get rid of it. That makes sense for the fast moving industry and innovation, however is it good for overall infrastructure and mankind. Do we dispose our legacy appropriately and make an equal effort to minimize the effects when its not utilized? It could be a hardware, an old code written in C or older language, a software replaced by a newer version etc.

If the off-boarding is not done in a correct manner, the legacy comes back in some form and haunt us. The content remains there and at certain point of time, it becomes critical. Be it a small function but it may block the innovation and increase project costs.

So going back to the headline, Consume less and experience more. An efficient lifecycle management of content is equally important to product development & implementation.

R&D, IoT and Virtual reality are upcoming challenges and brings simultaneous opportunities to Information Technology. This is the time to address life cycle of existing technologies and start assessments to downsize legacy contents and welcome the future!