Statue of Puberty

Technology has been our friend for a very long time now. Right from the time our Neanderthal friends started using the first of hand tools (which BTW, is pretty handy now, mostly used to scare pigeons that want to hump in your bedroom and on occasions to pelt away at your boss when he’s not watching), thru’ to the weapons age which carried a history of pain inciting methods and finally on to the computer age (and very soon perhaps the robotic age).

We invented the airplane a hundred years back. People could now travel the world (with a hole in their pocket) just for kicks, make business trips, flirt with stewardesses and on occasions drop bombs on unsuspecting countries.

A subsidiary of the above meant that people could travel to remote places of Africa and hump monkeys and just for fun hump humans immediately after traveling back. Humpsters that we are, HIV and a pleth of other monkey-hump-cycle-invoked diseases (which otherwise sat pretty inside the monkey) came out to travel in airplanes. In case you know the person responsible, and if he traveled by road, just for information … the motor car also stands as a technological aid. If he walked his way to another country, he was a loser anyway.

Speaking of motor cars, this again was a brilliant wheel merchant in the invention scale. To the numb, the motor car in principle started off with the basic principle of the wheel (which to me is the greatest invention). We now have the luxury of not just one wheel but millions of tiny revolving rivetty structures designed specifically to meet the needs of our daily commute. We can now not only run over innocent bystanders, but also make a mockery of property worth plenty and if we’re bored, shout at hapless commuters for being stupid.

The microwave ‘wave’ took the cookstorm world by surprise too. People could not only have their food ready instantaneously but also warm their undies for that special day feel.

Theater and Cinema followed closely by Television all gave us the entertainment that was promised. Who could have come up with innovative methods to execute people, derive innate pleasure with sadistic plots in soaps based upon an even more sadistic looking mother-in-law.

The internet marked a more recent technology wave. It has revolutionalized the way we seek information and gather courage to speak to a stranger without knowing rats ass (sometimes literal) about them. We could now stupefy our persona to a level not thought of earlier. Some of the other benefits include writing crap about anything and everything you want in the world and not giving a damn (as is the case now … also refer the links on the side for more crap).

Coming to the present … news is just in that a blind pair of mice have had their eyesight restored with the first of light-sensitive cell transplants. This quite obviously means that I still have hope, and in a hundred years, I’ll be able to enjoy the wonders of science (or robotic pornography over the internet as it exists then) just like the rest of you.

Imagine this …

Near Future addons for Google Talk: Speculations on their launch of PC-to-Phone capability with their tie ups with Gizmo Project and also with the incorporation of directory services (these are my thoughts) using their own search engine.

Case:
1. You want to book a room in Goa without the hassles of having middle tiers (travel agencies and the likes) to eat up the commisions.
2. You open up Google Talk
3. Search for your favorite group of hotels (or just search for any damn hotel in Goa)
4. Call the numbers displayed on the screen against a full fledged description of the hotel with pics
5. You make your calls based on your choice (of course, but perhaps we’ll also have reviews and star ratings, now that’d be nice)
6 . Add them to your address book (if you want to)
7. Alternatively use your cellphones to connect to you PC via a USB bluetooth telephony device (something similar to this will become common grounds very soon) that supports connecting to SIP protocols (and the newer VOIP protocols) and thereafter make calls directly from your cellphone with to n fro transfer of address book and related data.

Note: You may choose to replace Calling Hotels in Goa with anything else which might seem the need of the hour (viz. Pizzas, Movie Tickets, Home service barber among a crazy billion others)

Just a thought …

… and i buy meself a Logitech Momo Force-feedback Wheel and a Western Digital 320 GB USB drive …