A While Ago..

Technologically speaking, I think no one can disagree  with the fact that we are moving at the speed of light. However sometimes it’s quite amusing to discover how our language  hasn’t been able to catch up with the changes in the tech world. For example the other day, on my way to office, it occurred to me that there was something really strange about the announcements chanted repeatedly in the metro. The voice repeatedly announces, " Be careful of any suspicious object in the metro for example a toy, briefcase, transistor etc." Though I have heard this announcement at least a million times…and have never thought of it to be strange, it suddenly rang a bell, who the hell uses a transistor these days? 

I do not mean to hurt the sentiments of those who still happen to use one, though I m quite sure if you wish your transistor to be repaired…the technician might just need the help of his boss, who has most likely passed away. And  I m quite sure, just like every other profession, terrorists too boast of their own upward moving career graph! Which terrorist with a promising track record..would plant a bomb in a transistor??

Well on a more serious note, we can safely say that, soon the concept of using a pen and paper to express our thoughts and ideas will seem  archaic and redundant. However will we still use phrases like..  It’s time to" wield the pen?” I think we will. The interesting thing about a phrase is that..it tests our knowledge of History more than our language skills. Hence for those of us..who are left with an extremely confused countenance in the presence of abundant usage of timeless proverbs, idioms and phrases,it’s time to go back a few years and capture those moments in history which have a lot to do with the times we live in ; where a mere touch can do what took a hours a few years back.

In such times, its nice to know that language does not move as fast and acts like a window to our past that we do not want to  forget so soon.