No, no, no, i am not going to write about the great Darwin and his theory which my title may appear to quote. Well, that reference is more evocative. What i want to talk about in this blogpost is the evolution of technology, and how it seems to sound the death knell of an earlier mode of technology that was the talk of the town.
Technology is truly short lived these days. Rather, it is unbelievably fast paced. Just a decade ago, the t.v. ruled the roost. The remote was the king maker in each family every evening! With the advent of the laptop, and worse still, the multimedia mobile, the t.v. is almost not needed with that "duniya kar lo mutthi me" instrument.
The multimedia mobile is easier to handle, is much more handy and accessible, one can share easily the links to be watched later, the charges are not hefty at least in India, and it is user friendly! Slowly but surely, forget the t.v., even the laptop is getting out of fashion! Now, moreover, the folded version is available abroad. Very soon it would hit the market here, too! RIP, the T.V. and The Laptop!!!
In the process are emerging many interesting issues worthy of serious consideration. The excessive individuation of the private space, the resultant diminution of the public space, its usurpation by the lumpen-ised and simplistic argumentation of all varieties seem, at times, to lead to the death of intelligent creativity!
Why be so pessimistic though? Creativity is like the constant trickle of water that can sooner than later break through the hardest rock! Better to learn from the mistakes of the misuse of the earlier version of technology, adapt sensitively the newer, so as to grow better and more, right?
Pratima@2023 progresses, teaches us a lot about the mistakes in 2022. Hence every January, hope renews yet again. The same is true of technology, I suppose!
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