We are digital junkies…forever touching our magical devices. Our
digital addiction is reaching unprecedented levels. Many of us are spending
most of our waking hours on our smart phones, tablets, laptops, gaming consoles,
high resolution TVs, e-readers, Bluetooth speakers, headphones…forever checking
emails, Facebook, tweets, Google, messenger, whatsapp, flipboard, and countless
other apps, websites… is it the dawn of the age of singularity?.. even a few
hours without wifi..is a deprivation of the vital oxygen which is so essential
for our living…adults..children…all have been stricken by the new plague of the
net…kids one year old are getting so used to touch devices…they are at home
with these intuitive devices…steve jobs is the person who has launched the
human race into the cyberspace..
about 100 years ago…we started the electricity addiction…now
everything comes to a grinding halt without electricity…similarly the internet
grid of which wifi is the last mile link has become so very important …internet
is truly the next electricity..like blood with our bodies…water in the world…rivers
and seas..yes truly we are children of the internet age…there is no turning
back…lest we become pillars of salt like lot’s wife as they were leaving Sodom….in any case we
are going to reduced to robots like pillars of salt…
Slowly, gradually, inexorably we are being sucked into the
innards of our digital futures…the obsequious chips are controlling all our
movements…even when we are jogging..our iPods are monitoring our calories
burnt, speed, distance, heart beat.. now wristbands monitoring all our waking
and sleeping hours tracking our health to the minutest details.. every
heartbeat..every breath…every morsel…every drop…every turd…next the wonder
bands will be transmitting our health stats to our health records in the
cloud..to our doctors… maybe robo doctors…like the robo financial advisers of Charles
schwab.. In the coming age of singularity so vividly portrayed by kurzweil…micro
chips will be embedded into our bodies…our brains will be
duplicated..downloaded…into hard drives…cloned..
Millions of surveillance cameras are tracking every move we
make…there is a watcher in the skies…big brother is here and now…we are not
alone anymore…imperceptibly we are being sucked into the cyber future…morphing
slowly into our robot incarnations…mutations..there is no reprieve…we are
committed into a surreal cyber soulmind less future…forever detached from last vestiges
of all that we knew as humanity…floating digital debris in the infinite cosmos…
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