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What was once a free open society is today, an insecure and restricted community where the majority of the people live unbothered by the issues that surround them. Knowing used to be a powerful trait and now we are slowly giving it away to artificial thinking machines hence losing the thirst for knowledge, the penultimate goal of life.
Agreed that we have advanced unimaginably in the last two centuries. The Industrial Revolution threw us into a fast-paced era where every day new inventions were popping up. We have created the computer as a companion in our daily activities, we are on the brink of eradicating polio, and we lit the entire world with electricity. “But with the good, comes the bad’.
At Scire, we have a different story to tell. We believe in and respect the power of knowledge and in our little stories we set out to inform our readers of its importance. We are a group of high school students studying O/A Levels with the sole aim of promoting knowledge and raising awareness of global environmental issues. The team comprises of 5 students: Ibrahim Ihsan and Saeed Naeem who are the founders, Huzaifa Ali the Editor-in-Chief, Nahayan Hussain the Chief Developer and Abdullah Khurram the Creative Developer. The initiative taken by us is unique and amongst the first, if not the first, online magazine by high school students in Pakistan relating to science and technology while simultaneously giving voice to problems generally ignored here and elsewhere.
‘‘A nation can only be truly free once its citizens are aware of their rights and harness them. Nor can they progress if they think of themselves as useless and unimportant. In achieving this, knowledge and education play an irreplaceable role and if we keep on waiting for a messiah to fix our problems, we might as well not wait at all.’’
Scire is based on this notion and works to rekindle the spirit and enthusiasm of science and its applications in Pakistan and elsewhere. The thought and culture of the normal group of people are such that they resist being instigated to science and try to avoid the fact that it has the most promising prospects and solution knowing the nation has immense potential for them. This dearth of science in our beloved country led us to take the step towards starting a magazine for the betterment of society. We work to tell people about things they do not know but in truth matter greatly, things like how badly fish suffer at the wrath of plastic debris or how we can cover the gaps in energy production through green scientific innovation. That is the sole aim of Scire, to spread knowledge.
Today, the world isn’t perfect after our careless endeavors. There are issues that still haunt the better part of the global population and Earth itself. Global warming is on the rise every day and is taking a toll on all of us. In Pakistan, people are dying every day due to diseases as a consequence of impure drinking water. 10% of the people around the world don’t even know there is something like clean and transparent water. There is still hunger, poverty, and illiteracy. And not all of us enjoy the fruits of technology owing to lack of education in many areas. We have not yet achieved perfection for there are still paths to walk and wars to conquer.
At Scire, we talk about those problems with our readers. We empower them with the knowledge to make ‘the little things matter’ so they can contribute to the big picture. At Scire, we urge you to know, to inquire, to learn and to present. And for that, we hope to be a light for some and an inspiration to others for learning is the way to expel the obscurity of obliviousness. We hope to be a beacon of learning, knowledge and comprehensive thinking and to spread the message that we are built upon: –“to know”.
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