Surprises come unannounced and so does shock. A world with indispensable need for technology has actually kept us running in the race, without much as of a drop of sweat! Our social circle has no doubt increased. Oh! Where? On facebook, twitter, Gtalk and any other social networking site. You name it, I have it boy! And gone are the days when we needed to switch on our systems, wait for the CPU to turn on and then the slow-clap moment opening of the monitor. Today all we need is a soft touch, and there you are connected to your world (Otherwise considered virtual! I wonder why?)
I was in my ninth standard when I got my first working phone. And the feeling was incredible. Who cared if it was a not so smart Nokia phone with merely any features that the mobile technologies provide today. All that mattered was that now I need not ask my mother, or rather beg her to let me use her phone to make that one call to my friend whom I had not met for three entire hours after school. It's a long wait, trust me.
So, when I finally got my first phone I was content with the mere thought that my phone had a camera, probably with a resolution lesser than what today the front camera offers. But I was happy.
Then came in the oh-so-enchanting era of smart phones. And now, the phone which was my best friend seemed too disgracing. You cannot blame me though. Everyone had a phone with the android bug, and it looked so tempting. So it made sense when I urged, no, demanded that I needed a smart phone. You have to keep on fitting in, right? Or so I thought. So on the condition that if I top my board exams, I can have my dream phone my parents agreed to my demand. It was a clever proposition, though. I did study, harder, for that phone. Two months later, I had my first smart phone.
Now, what was the reason for extending this heart-warming (okay not!) tale was the fact that how important a mobile phone became for me is not only my story but is a common notion for all the members of this generation alike!
I read this really cool line, " Respect your parents. they passed college without google and wikipedia.". I could not have agreed more.
And our phone now has it all. Even if we are too shy to talk to a person face to face, it does not take much of an effort to type out a page length text on WhatsApp. And that emoticon: cherry on cake! When Dennis Richie passed away, it was yet another news but when Mark Zuckerberg decided to buy WhatsApp, #MostTrendingTopic.
The present is already too much in love with the mobile technology that it would be stupid to even question the future of mobile technology.
I am just reminded of a line, "I imagine you in colors that do not even exist". That is the limitless scope of mobile technology. Beyond boundaries, beyond imagination. It has made us more exposed to the reality even itself creating a whole new virtual world.
Today, we use mobiles to check our schedules for the day in college, check our attendance(yes, and also that dreadful text that reaches to your guardian with each bunked class. Really effective*facepalm students*). I can almost hear the slow clap in my head for such advancement.
Accept it, we need phones. And mobile technology advancing each and every day is working as a boon only if we keep it to that. Misuse of any power given is a crime. Mobile phones or not. So, if WE are intelligent enough to not let ourselves be carried away, the flourishing mobile technology is an angel to our lives: education and social life alike. After all Candy crush break is important after all the hustle, a WhatsApp class, best friend, relatives and whatnot group is also a prime necessity now. We need to stay connected and believe it or not thanks to the mobile technology that we still are.
Of course, real time, real world connections are more important. Many start arguing at the mere fact of staying connected through phones as a symptom that the person is soon going to be unsocial, no anti-social rather. I find it really funny at how good people are at assuming. It is really Fascinating.
The reality although remains that their incapability to balance the thin line between reality and the virtual world has what made them this bitter.
There is no one to blame, though. All we need is an open mind to accept the changes that the technology has been offering us. we are now letting people access education to far corners with this very mobile technology and also have come across better relationships through those texts when we are down.
All in all the future of mobile technology is bright. Education, social life, and personal life. We just need to learn to accept the new. After all change is the only constant yet variable spice of our lives. ;)
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