Technology -

Technology - This word didnt have too much significance in my life until Oct '05. Post that month, things have never been the same. I was blissfully unaware of the word "tech" or rather the wide spread ramifications of it in my personal life. My previous job was in confectionaries - sweet and sour were the only key words - The technologies i was exposed to would have been the normal entertainment devices including the ipod - So life was blissful in a certain way -

Alas, change is the only constant, mine included. My first day at the company started with reading manuals - When single innocent looking aphabets combine together, they start representing something grand & often complicated - Sample UMTS - I grappled with hundreds of such words and wondered - have I done the right thing - Here i am poet working in a tech company trying to make meaning out of strange looking alphabets and diagrams - But then hope never dies - So i stuck on

Fast forward - 20 months - Better conversant with technology - can spell the full form of UMTS without batting an eyelid - But then these 20 months had me wondering - When do we reach a stage where in we say " No thank you sir, no more technology intruding in my life" - Do we as individuals even have that choice or does it just invade us - I myself am guilty of the same crime - I have my mails on my cellphone and am in touch with my office 24*7 - Sometimes it is out of requirement ( is it??) and the rest out of pure habit

The number of hours in out lives have remained the same through centuries but the number of activities have increased dramatically - More in less time - Multi tasking ( oh i love this word) - Timeline management - etc etc etc - Panic sets in when mobile phone runs of out battery - Oh shit, how many calls did i miss - Ha, didnt even have a cellphone till 4 years back

So I ask myself a question - How do I as an individual stop myself to be completely dominated by the advancing technolisation ( invented the word) - Scared with the answer 'cause I dont have one - Mebbe I dont want to - Mebbe I cant - Mebbe I am not so human anymore

Think have rambled enough for one day - Back to work