Over the weekend as I was trying to ward off the residual remnants of sleep and was making an attempt to salvage whatever was left of the weekend I heard the pleasing splatter of rain!
In the part of world where I stay the earth has been smouldering at 40 degree Celsius and any whiff of rain is a welcome relief. What I did next, sent me down the lane of self-assessment or discovery. What was I doing ? Now dont let your horses of imagination run wild. I was not doing indulging in anything spooky or something which might make the reader raise their eyebrows.
What is your first instinct when you hear the pit-pat of rain drops ? Yes right you run to window to check? That's the normal human reaction or reflex action . But what did I do - I was frantically trying to fish out my phone from the jumble of quilt and pillows?What for -to check the app for weather - if its raining in my city?
SWAP SWAP
Such dependence on Technology that too me - what happened to running to the window to catch glimpse of the downpour? I then went on a path of self discovery. I realized there was a time when I remembered all the important numbers by heart, that is now delegated to the List called "important contacts ", "family" , etc ,etc ( some lists have cheesy names)
At that point in time a famous line by "Billy Cox" - the motivational speaker, trainer, mentor ,etc. started haunting me. It goes as below
Come to think of it - technology is no doubt helping us but overuse / over-dependence is depleting our natural skills of memory and fast thinking -perhaps.
No I am not a Nay Sayer , I love technology and the wonders it does , but as advent of calculators has made us let go of our swift manual calculation acumen , I fear certain aspects of technology may lead to blunting of some of our skills. We should try and make an effort to reduce our over-dependence on technology such that our human thinking skills dont become rudimentary.
As a famous American historian has rightly said -
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our Technology.
The fog of Information can drive out knowledge.
I am signing off today hoping that I and others too would use technology judiciously and not in way that it undermines our natural reflexes and mental prowess.
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