Technology – Convenience at a Cost

We are curious but it’s not that curiosity where something is uncertain — today’s curiosity is like after how much time it will happen.

Internet is double edged sword…everyone agrees to it. It certainly made our life easier. It took us closer to the world and like a magic almost everything is just a click away.

Go to any place of the world, you need not to be concerned about whether you will be able to find the correct address.

What’s happening in the world, just open the lock of your mobile screen.

Booking to anything and everything again within few mobile key press away.

Now we all got so much habituated, sometimes me – a millennial or Gen Y as they started calling us has seen both of the world and found myself a bit worried.

Pre-internet and the ongoing one.

As a Gen Y, I can clearly see the huge difference in the way of living the life.

I can say I am happy with the changes but somewhere deep down I feel sad about this life changing innovations.

I don’t know whether it’s me only or all in the Gen Y category feels the same.

As I mentioned above, finding any specific address got really easy. But then we should not forget that people used to travel before technology evolved so much and they also used to reach the respective destinations.

We shouldn’t forget the Columbus’s and Vasco-da-Gammas of the worlds who discovered way early, when I think the word “technology” was also not that popular one.

Many of the things which were can only imagined in our times are almost a fact these days.

Also, when watching any sci-fi movies, we used to take it as a fascination and we knew in real life it can’t be possible.

‘There are few things which can’t be done or achieved’ was very general.

If someone would have told that we can watch while talking to each other from different parts of the world or the latest came and now forgotten ‘Metaverse’, our multiples will be there to do the activities we supposed to go and do personally.

No one would have believed it and that guy used to be called as psycho or a person living in his own dreamland.

But things changed so much that, today if someone tells, “we can make alive a dead person”, we won’t be surprised, we know that anything can be possible these days.

So, my pain points in all the mentioning above is – all is okay, but somewhere we are losing on few things.

We stopped believing that ‘MAGIC’ exists.

We are curious but it’s not that curiosity where something is uncertain – today’s curiosity is like after how much time it will happen.

We are going towards a life of solitude, we are not in need of anyone to be with us, social media friends, high end robot servants

Technology satisfying each and every cravings

Losing human touch and getting more and more people-averse.

I feel privileged that while growing up, I had actual friends, with whom I used to talk, laugh with and fight in actual physical way.

I am happy that I was part of the discussion while standing in the queue for train/movie tickets.

While reaching somewhere, I used to ask for the directions and people used to help and I also reached wherever I want.

Messages/mails used to get delivered personally and not just got pending and unread in Inbox

We used to write actual letters and also used to feel emotions in the words. That paper used to convey the emotions.

When we see kids, youngsters or so called Gen Z or whatever, always their head in the mobiles/tabs, I don’t know, but it pains that they are missing the important aspects of life.

Life is much more than the everything dazzling on the screens.

When I see this, I feel fortunate that I born in that era, where attachment is a feeling in between people and not the thing to be sent along with an e-mail.

Stopping here, I know it can’t help, we need to adapt and move on…

let me know if you empathize with me