The curious case of technology.
Curiosity killed the cat, everyone knows. I don’t know how
relevant this phrase is today because curiosity is NASA’s land rover loitering
on our sister planet Mars without a cat on board.wow! Superseding arithmetic
and geometric progression ,technological progression has become omnipresent. How
cool! From satellites to outer space
missions, PSLV to GSLV, GSLV I to GSLV
III, cloning to stem cell technology, SMS to whatsapp so on and on and on. I
can cite so many examples that I’d start doubting my own existence.
Technology to me is killing the cat before it gets curious
therefore I’d get down to my business.
Post box is now extinct. Sky blue or yellow coloured
postcards are kept with kempt to be auctioned 30 years later. Public call
operator lost his job he might be driving a JCB in Oman who knows. The vegetable
vendor is busy playing angry birds on his 5.5 inch smart phone selling onions
at a fixed price. Buying lingerie is no more a taboo because they assure they
would wrap it up in black. We meet people everyday but we talk only on
whatsapp. Saying I love you is no big deal and those who are still stuck on 143
please check new emoticons especially the one with the pout!
Technology is a profound experience, we stay in touch using
a touch, life slows but never halts. Technologically we are advance. What about
the emotional quotient? God forbid if the government chooses to restrict its
services none of us would talk. We text and continue to text till falling in
love is the only option. We get bored after three months of continuous regressive
conversation, we stop liking the pictures and abstain from commenting on any
post, and we finally end up citing some scientific reason! Social science is
also a science okay! I might be wrong but it happens. To stay in touch we need
to talk not frequently but regularly. Technology doesn’t have a brain but,
sometimes the call is never received but the online status keeps blinking on
whatsapp...true phones are smart people are still humble! So what do we do? We stop
calling. THE END!
Technology is simply the commercialisation of science which
means Science innovates and technology is its application . Technology helps
mankind because anything that reduces human effort is machine. However
appreciating any effort by anyone to help you, to care for you is humane. Newton
explained gravity may be to help ISRO develop Mangalyaan( our sasta evam tikau
mars mission). So, while Sir Newton is dead on arrival we are comfortably alive
bringing back the dead. Thus, technology killed the romance doomed the love and
jinxed the fate.
P.S: You may not comply with me since perception is another
form of individualism but smart phones only help you grow smarter they don’t outlive
your smartness. Infuse in yourselves the ability to keep those who are trying
to keep you, because technology is constantly progressing. The software changes
every fortnight, understand the concept before kitkat becomes obsolete!

