Few minutes later, I had a plan to go out there, down the lane, take a walk, have some chitar pitar (as one of my friend call it). It actually means a food that is readymade, full of cholesterol, yummy but harmful. In short, junk food. But I like it anyway. Well, it’s not that bad, a plan to spend a lonely evening. Until it started to drizzle and then raining heavily. It appeared to me as if every rain drop felt like hammers in miniature. So eventually I was coerced to drop the plan. Now without having many options left to me I decided to finally update my blog.
Let me start it this way: if, on the evening of 10 June 1998, someone would have told me that I can apply for my driver’s license from my home with just a click, I would have been flabbergasted. Now after a little more than 10 years, you actually have the right to not miss the entire work day just to renew your driver’s license. You have the right to attend an oversea meeting in your underwear. Internet has provided us some alienable rights. It has changed the way we communicate. It has evolved through out a period of time.
Back in some AD or BC (I exactly don’t know), Hermes, the alleged inventor of writing, presented his invention to Pharaoh Thamus, he praised his new technique that was suppose to allow human beings to remember what they would otherwise forget. But the Pharaoh was not so satisfied. ‘My skillful Theut, he said, memory is a great gift that ought to be kept alive by training it continuously. With your invention people will not be obliged any longer to train memory. They will remember things not because of an internal effort, but by mere virtue of an external device.’ We can understand the preoccupation of the pharaoh. Writing, as any other new technological device, would have torpid the human power – just as cars made us less able to walk.
Nowadays, nobody share these preoccupations, because books are not ways of making somebody else think in our place, on the contrary they provoke further thoughts. So we have witnessed that whenever there is a change in technology people are hesitant to accept it. At present kids are very early to know more than someone at their age past in 1990’s. A good educational TV program can explain genetics better than a book. So is this the future? Tomorrow’s world? Well no one can actually tell, maybe it’s the present. Right from the early man carvings on the stone to the era of ipad a lot has changed, or is it just a bit, a hint of what’s next?
The rain finally abated. It’s cooler now.
