Talal Masood » TV http://www.talalmasood.com/blog Personal Blog - Computer, Internet, Experiments, Reviews Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:09:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Tap Tap Game of The IT Industry http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/the-tap-tap-game-of-the-it-industry-649 http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/the-tap-tap-game-of-the-it-industry-649#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:17:15 +0000 Talal Masood http://www.talalmasood.com/blog/?p=649

Back in 1998 I had a vision and was foreseeing “technology” in future. I had no idea how things will evolve eventually but I was pretty much sure that this is what the world is soon going towards intentionally or unintentionally. Today when I look back at those ages I see nothing, technology wise. I guess calculator was the only coolest thing which was the best (just kidding).


The first thing that I remember which got the biggest hype was “Pentium” processor. Everyone in Pakistan was so excited about it that they used to proudly tell others that “I own a Pentium computer” whereas your friend had “486 DX4″. Later on when “Pentium Pro-MMX” (200MHz) was launched things changed again with the introduction of high quality Multimedia playing ability on computers. A laptop was not a common thing at that time. Till 2002-3, owning a laptop was a status symbol just like today if you own an iPhone.

In mobile technologies Nokia 3310 was the handset which became the best-selling mobile phone and I remember too, buying it was my dream once. I was so fantasized by its appearance and features that I literally used to dream of owning it. Coming back to the future, my dreams still are following me but this time the handset has changed :)  now it’s may be Samsung Galaxy SII or after couple of months would be iPhone 5.

From bigger things we are going towards small and thinner things. Few months back I saw a cartoon sketch on Internet which was very much true. It said, in 1999 people were thin and TVs were big and now people are big & fat and TVs have gone very slim. So what is it? Are we ruining our own lives by introducing technology in it? In 2007 I guess it was “Bee Movie” which showed the same thing that people have gone too fat and just sit on their chairs all day long living in a virtual world that they had no idea what is around them. I am afraid we are leading our lives towards this virtual world. Whenever a group of friends are sitting together, hanging out; there is a long gap in conversation and everyone just put their heads down and tap-tap-tap on their mobile phones. After 10 minutes one of them just say “So what’s up guys?” and still looking at the mobile phone screens someone from one corner reply “nothing much” and then again a 10 minutes silence.

(My this article is also published as an editorial in Aug 2011 NetMag Magazine)

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