According to Wall Street Journal, entering 2016, the future never felt more within reach. 'Science fiction will become science fact this year when you take virtual-reality vacations and your dish washer reorders it's own soap' it adds! It emphasises on two themes, one is liberation from day to day chores like charging phones. The other it claims, is intelligence:our machines and services will become more efficient. Life will become very easy and uncomplicated!
Well, I am not so sure! Machines may become more capable assuming that they are in capable hands. Like our smart phones where the whole world is in the palm of your hands. Messenger, what's up and the most popular:Facebook! Cameras have become redundant, texting and messaging across the world has become child's play. Only one has to be smart enough to make use of all the features.
By the way, I consider myself to be reasonably smart but sometimes not enough! There is one thing I have yet to master is the elementary task of retrieving missed calls and voice mails. Therefore, when someone meets me and complains that he or she called, then left a message too, but still I have not responded to the same, I feel really very guilty for causing an avoidable misunderstanding. I have said sorry to quite a few. But how long this will help, I asked myself!
So as a sensible step, I decided to take my daughter's help to understand how to look for missed calls and voice messages. She patiently explained how to go about it. Now, I have mastered it and every few hours, I check my smart phone for the same. It is a different matter that most of the time there are none. Maybe, some of my friends have unfriended me!
Could it be that the world is communicating more by other devices like the Facebook, messenger or what's up? With so much of communication, one can not be too alert! One of my close friends whom I initiated into simple mails just an year back is now merrily sending me videos and images and I am finding it difficult to keep pace with him and with the constantly evolving technology!
But the best illustration of technology going really berserk was when I overheard my wife talking actually on the phone with one of her close friends. They were having an argument. My wife had planned a get together at the last minute and this friend of hers had failed to show up. The friend was explaining that she did not know about it. My wife asked her, did you see the messenger? Did you check your what's up? No, no, the friend said again and again. Why didn't you, my wife bitterly complained. To this, the friend was livid and in utter exasperation screamed, I could hear her, 'for God's sake, why did you not simply phone?'
Let me close this communication with best wishes to all my friends for a very happy new year of 2016!
Hoping you will see this blog. If you do not respond, I will call. Do not miss my call!
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