Technology....I never really thought I would be writing about this topic. I am not quite tech savvy kind of a girl. I would require all the help in the universe even to operate the simplest of the tech devices. I somewhat feel that me and technology don't have the same frequency. Even for making a simple online payment I really have to struggle a lot. My payment is never processed in one go.
While my friends would love to play "Angry Birds" on their touch screen phones I would rather prefer to use my non touch screen phone just for texting and chatting with a good old friend. Playing games online would never be on my list even when I have nothing to do and I am really bored. When I bought my first camera phone I didn't even knew what do we mean by megapixels.
But then there was this article in the newspaper that I came across the day before which made me write on this topic. The article was "how the net gave Delhi boy his memory back". This headline actually caught my attention. The article stated about a boy Mayank diagnosed with tubercular meningitis which is an infection of the central nervous system. This boy had lost his memory to such an extent that he didn't even understood the language. It was then that technology did the work of the medicine. He saw the desktop one day and recalled the day when his family first got it. It was a strange turn of the events that he who used to be a writer earlier had language as his biggest hurdle after the memory loss. He made mobile phone his English tutor. Watching the news on TV taught him how to construct the sentences. He then tested his re-acquired skills on Twitter whose character limit forces one to be creative. With an internet connection at hand but no memory, Mayank just googled himself. He discovered the articles he had written. And then Gmail helped him recollect the missing years of his life. Every e-mail told him something about himself in his own words. And not forgetting the most popular networking site Facebook helped him connecting with people he had earlier connected with.
At times we are so helpless that its just too hard to get back to leading our lives normally but then God sends us help in such forms that it leaves us astonished at our capabilities. But its possible only when we are ready to help ourselves and we never give up hope. Technology added one more merits to its already long list that it can be used to discover your own self. And moreover this article had made me tech-lover now.
While my friends would love to play "Angry Birds" on their touch screen phones I would rather prefer to use my non touch screen phone just for texting and chatting with a good old friend. Playing games online would never be on my list even when I have nothing to do and I am really bored. When I bought my first camera phone I didn't even knew what do we mean by megapixels.
But then there was this article in the newspaper that I came across the day before which made me write on this topic. The article was "how the net gave Delhi boy his memory back". This headline actually caught my attention. The article stated about a boy Mayank diagnosed with tubercular meningitis which is an infection of the central nervous system. This boy had lost his memory to such an extent that he didn't even understood the language. It was then that technology did the work of the medicine. He saw the desktop one day and recalled the day when his family first got it. It was a strange turn of the events that he who used to be a writer earlier had language as his biggest hurdle after the memory loss. He made mobile phone his English tutor. Watching the news on TV taught him how to construct the sentences. He then tested his re-acquired skills on Twitter whose character limit forces one to be creative. With an internet connection at hand but no memory, Mayank just googled himself. He discovered the articles he had written. And then Gmail helped him recollect the missing years of his life. Every e-mail told him something about himself in his own words. And not forgetting the most popular networking site Facebook helped him connecting with people he had earlier connected with.
At times we are so helpless that its just too hard to get back to leading our lives normally but then God sends us help in such forms that it leaves us astonished at our capabilities. But its possible only when we are ready to help ourselves and we never give up hope. Technology added one more merits to its already long list that it can be used to discover your own self. And moreover this article had made me tech-lover now.
Cudn't connect to that mayank's story much though it was very sweet n touching but for the first para, it was like a "boogly woogly wooksh girl" writing something, who got younger in second one n now had 2 pony tails n finally in the last para, and as the story she became so mature that others were amazed to see that paradigm shift.....lovely...all the aspects....
ReplyDeleteI am just amazed at your comment....just love it...its a nice motivation and your comments are quite mature ones yet sweet at the same time.
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