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The World In My Pocket

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    THE WORLD IN MY POCKET
    I have borrowed the title from James Hadley Chase’s thriller with the same name. I am, however, talking about the mobile phone.

    You no longer need to book a PP call and wait endlessly. News is instantaneous, and there’s no need to travel for meetings, as conference calls have taken over. Video calls allow you to see your loved ones without stepping out. You can leave voicemail instructions for the maid if you’re going out, ensuring tasks are handled in your absence. Everyone remembers birthdays now, thanks to specialists who initiate birthday greetings.

    There is an explosion of information with Google, YouTube, WhatsApp, etc., and we struggle to keep up with it all. If you browse a music program, you are flooded with similar recommendations. After reading astrological predictions, I now regularly receive alerts for my zodiac sign with dramatic, often alarming, titles. Once, I searched for a TV cabinet, and suddenly I was overwhelmed with ads from different brands. It feels like someone is constantly snooping, and all privacy is lost.

    You can set an alarm for the airport, and it won’t let you rest until you wake up. Need to visit someone’s house? Just switch on GPS, and you’ll be there—unless, of course, something goes wrong, like a recent incident where a car was led into a lake! With select numbers stored as favorites, we’ve even forgotten important phone numbers, like our own brother’s.

    Financial transactions happen in a flash with UPI and bank transfers. You have access to your bank accounts anytime, and the days of waiting in line at the bank to update your passbook are over. For brevity’s sake, I won’t list all the other possibilities.

    So, am I not right in saying that the world is in your pocket? If you lose your mobile phone, your world seems to crumble—at least until you get a new SIM card. Elon Musk has suggested that mobile phones might become redundant in the coming years. Until then, let’s enjoy the world in our pockets.
     
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    When mobile phones were introduced in India, all the walls in cities were painted with "WHAT YOUR PHONE IS DOING AT HOME ?"
    In public places, we could see some lucky guys with mobile phones showing off by holding them close to their ears and talking—mostly to themselves.
    Today, it is more of a necessity than anything.
    Tomorrow, who knows?
    Science is a good servant but a bad master. Pagers are being used for terror activities.
     
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    Kudos to @sln for the timely write up that describes how a nonagenarian enjoys every breath of his life with modern gadgets that facilitates and enables him to monitor attend and carry out financial transactions in a jiffy.

    World even universe has shrunk with technology advances galloping at lightning speed . Man is going to be on other planets except Sun. Every thing has miniaturised . A huge building of eight or twelve stories was required to accommodate gargantuan size office at mount Road for LIC . In a space of fifty years, now the work is done just in one tenth or one twentieth of that space. Yet the organ is over staffed.

    From desk top to lap top to palm top to pocket to wrist computing and transfer of knowledge is at the finger tips. Lucky we are alive to watch this exponential progress in technology that hS been making rapid strides in every aspect of life penetrating industries and space exploration.

    World panorama looks more greener and the separating lines between the nations blurred and distances matters the least. A plane can travel round the world purely on solar energy and controls in ones pocket or in auto mode!

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    When I went to Hongkong in 1993 most of the Indian audience were on their mobile while I was addressing them.I felt disgusted at the lack of courtey.At the same time I envied them as my application for an OYT telephone connection in Chennai was pending for two years.Today our maids,driver,isthiriwallah,gardener etc carry smart phones and all payments are on googlepay. Today india boasts of 1.15 billion mobile connections with a mobile density of around 86% Imagine India without mobile connection.
     
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    Hello @sln sir
    Nice snippet, portable devices have vital role in our life.
    There was tagline of Reliance Telecom kar lo duniya mutthi mein in hindi (it means take over the world)
    It was vision of Reliance Telecom company.
    My paternal aunt avail technology to the fullest,she is 77 years old.
    She watch all live programs sitting in her room,talk to her grand daughters, friends and relatives in video call.
    She never physically go out,I tease her saying that,you take over the world sitting at home.
    For that she says I cannot go out anymore, till my retirement I did lot, now I will be at home and enjoy everything that I missed.
    Regards
    Ratna
     
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    I got my first mobile phone- a Nokia- in 1998 and from my employers. Now they could call me anytime, anywhere and I had no excuse not to reply.
     
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    Companies gave the employee laptop made the latter their slaves 24x7. Family time too robbed by the employer by giving employees gadgets so that they remain at beck and call of their boss.
     
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    By offering a mobile phone people have been tricked into 24/7 servitude by the employers. The facility however far outweighs the extension of office at home.
     
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    Since employees permitted to work from home, company and staff saved lots of money resulting in huge savings. The necessity all to be present for a particular period of the day in office is done away with. Office space requirement for staff too shrank. Miscellaneous expenses reduced. Employees working from home saves fatigue improve health, save long drive and travel and overall happy quotient.
    A son of my friend wfh -not at helm - demanded split Airconditioner and monthly AC allowance FROM His American employer and lo he got it sanctioned. Such are the powers of tech knowledge and experience.

    I happened to see him wfh sitting in front of PC system wearing only shirt and tie and Bermuda (half trousers). His team members many are ladies from various zones of the globe converged on the screen some looking charming some glum one articulating her reply response or query and my friend's handsome son instructing them - all super. He was wearing No shoes no socks no footwear. For an office outside one has to carry the laptop, follow dress code and prompt attendance etc. technology not only in our pocket but provides enormous comfort and luxury.

    As an anathema a young ambitious spinster chartered accountant employed by EY just a day before heard collapsed at desk in their office reported died of cardiac arrest. It was reported by her mother that her only young spinster daughter in pink of health succumbed to the pressure of time bound tasks by exerting for long night hours work resulting in lack of sleep.
     
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