Power of Technology

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.”                                                                                                           - Julie Kagawa, The Iron King


Our daily lives begin not by saying “Good Morning” ... It starts by checking into Facebook. We move onto leaving our home to start our daily work, we hardly wish “Good bye” or say “Have a nice day”. Instead, we first check whether we have carried our cell phones, notepads. My point, technology has become our bread and butter - a governing ghost in our daily lives, where simple stationery has been replaced by hi tech gadgets, where the traditional culture of writing letters has converted into emails, short messages to the extent of missed calls.


How about if I ask someone, do you know when was the last time you actually visited a book shop or for that matter saw the face of a post office to mail a card to your beloved ones? – I will actually get a blank hesitant and confused look! Probably, I still might get to see a few carrying books, but the quotient is negligible. Reason is clear. All those are replaced by sending a short message or an email or worst – making posts on social networks. Job done! This is where my friend technology has become so highly important in our lives. There were times where our parents restricted us from writing on walls, watching TV for hours and playing video games. Welcome technology! Now we have pertained and forced to write on “walls”, keeping ourselves updated with the new video games and with the trendy gadgets.


Technology has been a boon, especially in the medical and corporate world. From X-ray machines, it is now all digitalized with the introduction of “Tablets” ...Treatments have become more users - friendly and faster. A big thank you to the founders of GOOGLE! Now even your two-year-old sibling is ahead of their parents as far information is concerned. The evolution of technology has surpassed its limits. At one time, we were happy with a personal computer with a keyboard and mouse. Ah! Those were the days where saving money to buy a radio and then an audio cassette made us elated. And now... come the mini iPod, CD players, and the HD clarity sound systems that every Tom, Dick and Harry has. Today, one need a lot of art to get lost on the road, Google Maps, GPS systems has taken care of that – Can’t say that about life though! Technology in its most unique way has emphatically embedded a sense of security within us with the introductions of flash drives, portable hard disks and passwords!


Contrarily, technology has killed the term “privacy” from our lives or if I may say “wiped” it off! How much ever we try to emphatically justify that there is security everywhere in the form of CCTV and other associated elements, we still are “watched and recorded every minute – A hidden sense that we face every day!


Nevertheless, how much ever technology tries to govern our life it cannot substitute for feelings, thoughts and emotions. It cannot heal a broken heart. And as time moves on and we grow further the belief and the imagination that technology will take over the world will slowly fade away. So, jump out from the animated world of “Half Life” and “tweeting” and return to the world of reality, where sending a telegram, a card and at the most calling your loved ones would hold much more value than being totally mechanical. Always remember......


Technology has not made human beings or its feelings... It has always been the other way around!