Our topic for the media corner last week was ‘40 years of the internet’. When I was searching for information, I realised how technology has advanced so much and how most of us can’t even think of leading life without the internet. We play games on the internet, we advertise, we shop, we chat, we learn, even date! If this is what we can do now, imagine what is in store for us in the future.
Earlier, we used PC’s to access the Internet. Now we use cell phones and PDA’s. What I think is, soon, everything from the car to the refrigerator will be connected to the global network. Your refrigerator will be able to download updates and create a shopping list all on its own. It will then send the shopping list through email to your car. The car will locate where your children are in the city with the help of google earth, online. It will bring the children back home and do your shopping as well. Kaafi convenient, don’t you think?
Our generation will become the ‘boring’ generation. We will be the only ones to have met ‘offline’. Our grandchildren will all find love ‘online’. Any couple to have met offline will become the ‘weird’ couple. Running matrimonial websites will soon be the most sought after careers.
And that’s not all. While, chatting on the internet, the chat rooms will have voice modulators so that you sound however you want to sound to other people. You could choose to put on a deep voice or a gruff one. All this will mean increase in cyber crimes etc. But then, there is very little to lose when compared to everything there is to gain, hai na?
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