I have been a late comer on Orkut, on Face book and on Twitter. I have been slow in adopting and adapting to technology and slower still in getting all starry-eyed about gizmos. Talk to me about the latest mobiles in the market, new age gaming consols, poking or pinching on social networking sites…I am not your audience.
I do feel sometimes that I will be left behind very quickly and people around me will be talking stuff that will remind me of the Sin ø Cos ø days in school or worst still the Econometrics classes in college which they said were important but kept me wondering if they are required to lead a normal life. I do know however that this is different.
My problem is that I am a thinker. I don’t have to sit like Rodin’s ‘Thinking Man’ to do the thinking..I can do it anywhere, any time. And that is the problem really. I get lost.
We would be barely 5 minutes in a “let me update you” lesson by a well meaning friend or ‘you need to know this’ session by my frustrated husband and I am lost. I am lost thinking about something that came up in the discussion and while am pretty good at putting up a face as if I am absorbing every piece of techno-jargon being bombarded at me..in reality I would have turned my mental jammer on and other than the sound of people talking..I am not listening at all.
“You M-O-R-O-N”.. my brother says.
I need help. I need to get into some kind of rehab to make me more acceptable in society. My parents told me I have to be honest, polite, wise, and friendly, have good manners, study well etc etc to be accepted by society. This was in the 80’s. And I did everything to become the quintessential good being that they coached me to be.
Now I am being told that if I do not adapt to the changes that Technology brings forth then all that I have toiled for in the last 30 years to become acceptable in the society will be in vain.
I need help. I need rehab. I need someone to tune my mind so that I not only understand the techno-babble but also shut my brain from deliberating on useless issues….
…issues like how long will it be before this super-human looking and sounding app is replaced by a super-duper human looking and sounding app.
..issues like how many lives can be changed if even 1% of the money we spend on these devises gets siphoned to the poorer countries.
I need help to shut down my system to prevent it from wondering how much plastic is added to planet earth every time a new technology makes existing gadgets obsolete!
I hear someone saying... "stop it - YOU M-O-R-O-N!!!"
