RIP: Technology!

This one moment we are enjoying the bliss of technology, teens watching TV series on phone while eating, kids exhausting Google with boring science questions for projects, moms looking for cooking recipes for stuff they already know how to cook and dads looking at stock markets, and the next moment, there’s a moment of silence, more silent than silence itself, hearts skipping a beat and the internet and all technology dies out, to never come back! I am sure if you are living in the 21^st century and you are not visiting us from the past in your time machine, you will go blank!


We have all had a moment when our technology went awry with either cell phones malfunctioning, or Wi-Fi going astray or laptops freezing, and it was a complete devastation! Now if it’s all taken away from us forever, is there any word worse than devastating? I am not even sure there’s one.


The elders of our family will still strive with pride to reminisce those days when they survived and perhaps lived, without all this technology. But we, Millennials, will feel like their whole life, their whole existence is coming crashing down in front of their own eyes. Here’s the thing, not only are we dependent on technology but we have been taught to be dependent on it. It was not a privilege, it was a necessity! None of us have survived without the looming influence of technology even if we wanted to. And why would anyone? If we can get connected to our loved ones instantly or can have knowledge at the tips of our hands, how could anyone abstain from it? And this is coming from a person who has tried to stay off the grid and as far as, from technology longer than any teenager of her time. I can’t even work my way around an Ipad and I am 22!

But assessing the situation really, let’s acknowledge some of the industries dependent on technology, the whole financial and economical system of a country will turn to ashes because it doesn’t take an expert to know that all their operation is based on technology showing its miracles. Even defence systems are software based. The entire manufacturing departments, the Aviation, the Railways will be tore apart. And the financial system, let’s just say its unimaginable! To top it off, if you even have to get a little piece of information, we would have to go through mounds of books to obtain it. If we have to call our loved ones, use the old landline (I am not even sure if many of us own that) to call them. We will be transported to the past without a time machine!


Yes the ancient times might be simpler but we will still hate it. But like our species have done over centuries, we will evolve. Maybe we will pick up better ways to live life along the way. It might not be simple but it’s almost a law of the universe, everything and for this matter, every time period has its pros and cons.


After our existence almost getting uprooted, on the extent of being wiped off, we will survive. We still have our intelligence to learn to adapt and build a new future. Because if we wouldn’t have it, we wouldn’t have come so far! Sure things will be different this time but it won’t do any harm to gradually learn to work harder and grow to be more independent, closer to our loved ones and yet farther from unhealthy temptations. We can build a system of existence will lesser disadvantages than of the previous one, because if anything, we study history and learn.