How
many of us can cope a day without looking at our smart phone? How many of us
can cope a day without having to watch the TV set? How many of us can cope a
day without looking at our Facebook? Of course we can cope, but honestly we
will have some enticement to squeak into these modern gadgets. It is important
to note that we are slaves of these gadgets some way or the other. Slavery is
not abolished; rather it is confounded in our world today. Slave is bound to
the master; he is not free because he has to paid his allegiance to t
I
was having a dinner with one of my friends; she was enthusiastic about our
dinner. As we shared the table, apparently she was feeling the absence of
something. I fairly did not figure out what she was missing. I thought to
myself that I was mind-numbing her with my routine current affairs of our
world. Now it was clear to me that she had to attend to her phone because it
was buzzing at least a million times. She was fidgety until she “Whatsapped” or
“BBMed” those friends who were stalking her to share about her dinner with me.
Once she did that, it was indeed an on going ordeal where she was coerced to
chat reply. Eventually, I put a finale to our dinner, when I found that she is
downright glued to her little screen on her palm. The excited table fellowship
ended in arguing about the decorum of table camaraderie.
We
are barraged with the technological advancements today, that we feel without it
we will be dismal. We are continually colonized by the technology today so much
that we feel lost without it. Today, the technology has grown leap and bounds,
so much so, no one listens, but everyone speaks. That is the influence of the
modern slave master. Slave master (technology) controls us. Slave master will
tell us how much time we must spent with it, how much money we must spend on
it, how much energy we much spend on it. Hence, we have no say, because we are
slaves of it. We have absolutely no control over it, despite the fact that we
created them; therefore we must be able to filter it to meet our needs.
Today,
everyone has a smartphone, and if you don’t have one, you will be forced to
have one sooner. If you don’t have one, you might be redundant in our current
world. I read a news item a few months ago, that in China, someone sold his own
kidney to buy an iphone, because he thought having an iphone is vital in the
contemporary world. Hence, smartphone had taken precedence over his own body.
We are disremembering to see each other face to face, because we are seeing
them on Facebook, Whatsapp or BBM etc. We would have missed so much whilst we
are on our little gadget world. We would have missed to see the real beauty and
grandeur of our universe because we see them on our palms through the little
screen.
I
would tell anyone who is glued to the smartphones or gadgets to look up. It is
the right time for us to take a retrospective analysis about our world and
ourselves. We have been looking down on our little virtual-world on our screens
and forget the real world. We would have missed a lot of good things whilst we
look down on the screen. The screen is our master, it is bright, brilliant,
intelligent, shrewd, informative, but it is indeed destructive and not
constructive. It does not build human relations, which is the key to our
existence. Hence, we have lost the sense of brotherhood and sisterhood, which
will eventually lead to enmity and much less hesitation to instil violence on
others.
Where
are we heading with this technological slave master? Some might dispute with
me, it is substantial to have information at our fingertips. For these
disputants, I have my opinion: how did the persons from the renaissance period
live with umpteen numbers of scientific inventions to their credit. They had effectively
no technology that we have today, but they outrivaled. How many of our young
persons go to book stores, rather you would see them flocking to a gadget shop,
even to the extent of lingering in the line for several days before even the
gadget come to the market. One example that lingers on my mind is, London
underground trains, most of the young persons are glued to their little virtual
world of music, videos, games, text messages so on. One does not even know who is
sitting next him/her. It is inconsequential who is next to them. This is the
world we are moving towards. We have to accept it rather than to brood over it.
We may not be able to mend it because it has already taken deep root in our
world. The modern slave-master has won over us. He has the bridle; hence we obey
him out rightly. It is alarming that this slave-master is ruling the world
today. He makes decisions in our lives, and if he does not want us, he can
simply ditch us, and we might feel armless and limbless. I have no solutions to
abolish this slavery, if you have any solutions to abolish this kind of modern
slavery, let us try to voice up. If we don’t find a solution, it will take its
toll and destroy our human race completely.
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