Just a 'Screwed up' Thought...!

Just when I sat down to pen an essay with topic yet unplanned, my cell rang. It was my friend who wanted me to check out his latest status update on facebook. Well, off course I ignored his anxiety and quickly wore back my thinking cap. 3mins later, my engrossment was yet again shaken with a message alert, this time again it was the same friend asking ‘DEKHA KYA?’ He left me with probably no option after the missed call that followed. Double click on Mozilla Firefox, logged in only to like that status without even reading it. Just a second before I was supposed to log of, I got a notification saying that friend had commented on his own status saying ‘thnx dude.’

That was exactly the time a thought struck me, more than a thought, it was a question, How logically technological our life has become. Examination papers have weighed 100 marks since ages, but yet the complaints of not being able to complete the paper have been buzzing around more in recent times. Probably because sometime back we used to complete notes on our own, but now a days, we use a technology called photo copy. Language has gone for a toss. Thanks to all the latest ‘live chats’ available, people express their laughter using LOL, ‘you’ has become ‘u’, ‘are’ has become ‘r’, and computer is ‘pc’ where as ignorance is simply ‘ttul’ which means ‘talk to u l8r.’ We’ve literally murdered dictions. Mobile phones are used to receive voice calls, but making calls has now become a secondary feature of the same gadget, primary ones being the high pixel camera, built in wifi, mp3 player, 3g, etc. A mobile phone today may or may not connect you to people away from you, but it certainly does disconnect you from the person sitting next to you.

Well logically speaking it would take just take a few minutes to give a document to a senior, but technologically speaking, what I once saw in a corporate office was that the junior scanned the document, the file size went over limit so he couldn’t send it as an email, so he uploaded the documents to a site and sent the link of it to his senior. It took him 4 hours to do this! Thanks to technology, we can now waste time more efficiently..!

But these technologies are not just restricted to cell phones and computers, but also the various new engineering masterpieces like the machines used in hospitals, vehicles, the spy cameras and so many more which have made an impact and have made life much more safe and simple. These kinds of technologies are required because they do good to us at the end of the day, but not all the gadgets that surround us do good to us. The latest bikes in market have a developed brakes system, entire lineage but it all depends on the care one takes, how responsibly one drives.

Came across this very interesting signboard at an office, which read, “He who has the last laugh probably made a back up.” Today it’s exactly the same case; the one more inclined towards technology is the one who has the last laugh, but the one who knows how to balance life and technology doesn’t even need to stay till the end to laugh…

I would like to conclude my expression by saying; technology can do us good only if we know the point after which it can do us bad. We cannot afford to be so much dependent on technology that it becomes difficult for us to solve problems when there is no technology around.

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