The Trauma of a technology-absentee world explained!
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I can still remember that ‘coup-de-foudre’ moment. Like when the hero in rural Tamil Nadu falls in love with the exotic Anglo Indian heroine in Aadukalam. We were asked to put footwear outside to enter inside the newly tiled and air-conditioned room. Clearly, a sharp contrast from the cemented, untidy classrooms! Inside the room, the computers were systematically arranged and covered neatly. We were not supposed to touch the computer. We will be seated distantly in the same room. The instructor will touch and show us the peripherals of the computer. We should note it down. Children murmured to each other the possible time it will take to touch the computer. Some said November. I went through the pages in my textbook and found that most of the pages described the peripherals alone. Alas! Towards the end, I found a chapter called MS Paint. I showed it to my friend and assured her that we would touch the computer when our teacher teaches this lesson. That was my fifth standard class. The following year, I joined another school where Information Technology would be taught only in high school. It certainly put me down. Internet was not commonplace, so were computers. I insisted that I have to join a computer course during vacation time and was extremely satisfied when my parents enrolled me on one. I used to pat myself for being one of the very few who can create commendable performances in Microsoft Office.
But on the other hand, I cannot imagine how my childhood would have been if it was captivated by technology and its enigmatic wonders as now. Luckily, my early teenage years and childhood were in an era without mobile phones. But now, I cannot think of a productive day without internet. My laptop and mobile are like my breath holders, which is plainly a loss of innocence! As an aspiring writer, I consistently picture myself writing in Word processor and reading letters in Times New Roman font. Technology has shrunk me into a framework in which I fit perfectly. So do many other human beings who, without any hesitation, agree to all the terms and conditions. We never understand that we have fallen into a trap from where there is no return. A selfie click conquers the beauty of the sunset and the silence of the woods. Like a kid who misses his parent in a busy shopping complex, we become very lonely when our mobile phone is not working. Like a man abandoned in the desert waiting to see another human being just to wave his hands, our hands shake to hold this device back and wave welcome.
If phones and internet die tomorrow, there is no other word
to describe the feeling other than ‘sad’! Our proximity with technology has
become so that we are trained and equipped only to live in a world eased by it.
Like a scary dystopian fiction, I would keep away this thought!
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