We all have big or small strands of addiction towards social sites like Facebook, Orkut , Linked-in etc etc. We spend considerable time browsing through other people’s profiles, commenting on them or putting updates on our status.
I wonder if something like Facebook will really replace the real world someday and we would all be doing all activities except sheer physical activities of course online (not that now a days we really do any physical activities apart from very basic ones).
If this happens our world will be our computer screen. Our manager will send the work as a message with "comment" option disabled and auto response as "like" (the company will decide who can play with options depending on the hirarchy).
The wife will post on her wall that the food is ready and you would immediately press the like button (you bet, whether you like it or not). She would comment on your wall "what time are you logging out the “office Facebook", mind you there will be no real offices. And you would reply with a message lest the boss sees it, "my boss is online and i can't move, I am fed up with this chap now!!".
Guess what, the teachers will put all their board works on their walls. Schools will have secure facebook and the authority to see the pages will be given only to those who have paid the “school fee”. If you miss the payment date you will automatically be taken to school gate- (-way for payment). The late comers for a lecture will be kept out of class and they will not be shown content for that lecture.
Kids will run bicycle (application), will play in the garden (application) and will write “cry” on their mother's wall. My imagination does not go further. I don't know if the mother will still have to hold the baby to sooth her, will still have to feed her or there would be an application developed for that!!
Are we moving towards a digitization overdose??
3 comments:
I remember there was a animation movie which portrayed this very scenario .... as a result people can do all their activities siting in a chair and hence they grow so fat that they can't even walk :D .... i guess you should see that flick...not able to to recollect the name though....
The Movie is Wall-E
@Aditya, I guess Wall-E is more of si-fi about robots and feelings developed in robots (a la Enthiran!!)
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