I have an utter disregard for gadgets,while the whole world around me seems to be smitten by their charm. The complication is that, my work is related to that world of gadgets. So if in case, people start to share my apathy for gadgets, I would actually be right on the roads to joblessness.
Now,I see everyone around me having a phone with a music player, a camera, as an internet device as everything… and then I hear the reason for that because people do not have to carry all of these separately. But, when was the last time we needed all three at the same time?
So here is what I have heard a lot of times .. we go for a trip and we did not remember to bring the camera…so I have my phone or my iPad which will help me in taking all my pictures.. really? If you ask me, you were irresponsible in forgetting your camera and the laws of nature say that any irresponsible action should bear with its consequences.
People around me look like cranky kids who just think of something they want and which is not available to them…and some one is there to make it and sell it out to them..
In all these years of having 3-G on my phone, I refused . I think I have missed it only once., when I was stuck in the traffic and had a call with whom I had a meeting and cant call him because I don’t have international calling enabled. But once I reached office and apologized, it was perfectly acceptable.. so really there was no need of fretting about it..It really was not a life and death situation .And I have put myself in all sorts of difficult positions like getting on the wrong bus twice. So the first time I called up someone who can give me a taxi number.. the other time I asked a fellow passenger who takes the bus regularly to help me out..people say that if I had a phone with an internet I would not have needed to do this. To be independent ….But isn’t this reducing human to human interaction….
The utter disregard to common sense when people are using gadgets is appalling. So we have the directions given all over the road but the gadget shows something and of course we follow the gadget rather than the road directions or the maps….So the gadget is no more the helper it is the decider…
Talk about invasion of work into private space! So you go on a holiday but still connected. You come home from work and then you can still start where you left.
For me this has just made us really lazy, irresponsible and dolt as a society. So why bother about preparing for a trip when you have a GPS to help you with the directions. Why bother to tell anyone what time you are reaching and then keep the time.. you always have your mobile to reach out to anyone at anytime. Why finish off the work in allotted hours of work.. You can always come back home and still finish off the work. Sure these tools have empowered us but isn’t there something that says with great empowerment comes great responsibility. How many of us who own these gadgets are mature and responsible enough for their use?
And as I sign off, the opening verse from Gods must be Crazy - getting truer by the day:
Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. [imdb]
Now,I see everyone around me having a phone with a music player, a camera, as an internet device as everything… and then I hear the reason for that because people do not have to carry all of these separately. But, when was the last time we needed all three at the same time?
So here is what I have heard a lot of times .. we go for a trip and we did not remember to bring the camera…so I have my phone or my iPad which will help me in taking all my pictures.. really? If you ask me, you were irresponsible in forgetting your camera and the laws of nature say that any irresponsible action should bear with its consequences.
People around me look like cranky kids who just think of something they want and which is not available to them…and some one is there to make it and sell it out to them..
In all these years of having 3-G on my phone, I refused . I think I have missed it only once., when I was stuck in the traffic and had a call with whom I had a meeting and cant call him because I don’t have international calling enabled. But once I reached office and apologized, it was perfectly acceptable.. so really there was no need of fretting about it..It really was not a life and death situation .And I have put myself in all sorts of difficult positions like getting on the wrong bus twice. So the first time I called up someone who can give me a taxi number.. the other time I asked a fellow passenger who takes the bus regularly to help me out..people say that if I had a phone with an internet I would not have needed to do this. To be independent ….But isn’t this reducing human to human interaction….
The utter disregard to common sense when people are using gadgets is appalling. So we have the directions given all over the road but the gadget shows something and of course we follow the gadget rather than the road directions or the maps….So the gadget is no more the helper it is the decider…
Talk about invasion of work into private space! So you go on a holiday but still connected. You come home from work and then you can still start where you left.
For me this has just made us really lazy, irresponsible and dolt as a society. So why bother about preparing for a trip when you have a GPS to help you with the directions. Why bother to tell anyone what time you are reaching and then keep the time.. you always have your mobile to reach out to anyone at anytime. Why finish off the work in allotted hours of work.. You can always come back home and still finish off the work. Sure these tools have empowered us but isn’t there something that says with great empowerment comes great responsibility. How many of us who own these gadgets are mature and responsible enough for their use?
And as I sign off, the opening verse from Gods must be Crazy - getting truer by the day:
Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment; instead, he adapted his environment to suit him. So he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labour-saving devices. But somehow he didn't know where to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make life easier, the more complicated he made it. So now his children are sentenced to 10-15 years of school, just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man, who refused to adapt to his surroundings, now finds he has to adapt and re-adapt every hour of the day to his self-created environment. [imdb]
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