And I am not talking just about those who listen and talk back (including Siri; yeah, like you guys would let me exclude him/her/it) but also those inane things which constitute the maximum hours of companionship except when you are sleeping and not reading this.Let’s ponder. Also since, I have nothing better to do at this hour but coax you guys to mull about some philosophical junk which after having converted into words I will propagate to amass a whole lot of credit and some uninvited smart comments.
But really, a lot of productive hours of mine have been spent musing upon one particular episode of the show “The United Stats of America” on TV. The hosts are 2 brothers who statistically attempted to prove how the solution to one significant problem of “Not much Time” lies just with us. In today’s “bullet-train” pace of life, we are succumbed to or rather voluntarily give ourselves to staying perpetually connected to technology. Today, “I forgot my phone” could very easily be categorized as a national crisis. I am not even going to dig the reason as to why we are enslaved by today’s tech. But do we, perhaps in the wee seconds of consciousness in the exhausted pre-sleep period retrospect as to how much of our lives are consumed and dictated by gadgets and the like. We don’t and if some smart ass believes that he/she does then you’d be lying because unless you are such a big fan of mine to take a print out of this piece, you are most likely reading it off your computer/tablet/phone/watch/washing machine/refrigerator etc.
So when we have run out of dilapidated quizzical paths in the ramshackle ruins of Temple Run or have catapulted till the last Angry Bird found its cool, we pause. First to marvel at our feat, shake off those burnt out fingers and then realize it’s been 14 hours since I last spoke to anyone. Suppose we did find someone to talk to, who is to guarantee that he/she is not currently on a spree to beat your score?
Then we have an overdose of other applications provided by Android and iOS; Blackberry still maintains an innocuous impression of a business phone and they do not believe in the phrase “All work and no play makes Mike a dull boy”. Given the overflow of applications, we now have an App market in the phone for users to browse and download. There are all kinds of App: 375689 camera applications, 37839 social applications, 653803 creepy applications, 974638 applications for applications, 478593 applications to understand the application for the application. Phew! A decade back all an application made sense was the one I had to write to the class teacher explaining why I was absent from school.
The rate at which applications are being developed, some smart phones are rumored to be able to gauge the temperature of the user, calculate calorie burn, BMI, determine the sex of the user, have sex with the user, roll out tissue papers, make exotic cocktails, cook a seven-course meal, ride a horse, fly a plane, buy an island amongst a host of other unbelievable superpowers.
Life without your gadgets seems scary now, but do you wonder a life with only your gadgets?So my dear Blackberryians, Androidians and iEverythingOnThisPlanet-ians, before we become a gadget ourselves, I guess it wouldn’t be a bad idea to you know, talk and listen to a human more frequently than once in a while.
Do keep in touch. Oh, by the way what is the latest game on Android?
Nice...keep writing.
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