I for I-Phone

Technology has advanced and so have the generations... A couple of days ago, me and my colleagues were having a discussion that cell phones, these days are everything but just a "calling" device. This has involved a lot of brainstorming and the results are awesome... I cannot believe that travelling to another country is all about the documentation, other than the physical proximity, you actually do not "miss" the person!! 

So, my question was that if there is some thing that we as a generation cannot imagine, what it is going to be like  after 25-30 years...I mean just imagine... did our parents anticipate living in different countries / cities could be so easy? 

Cell phones brought revolution to the world and now the data connected devices or the cell phones with data plans are just icing on the cake. I started all this conversation because of the following conversation with a customer service agent (CSA) - this is only a section of it - 

CSA - Ma'm I will be certainly able to e mail you all the information, but can you please update the e mail ID that we have here?

Me - yeah sure, its raji.852@gmail.com, is in not the same that you have there?

CSA - ma'm your voice is very difficult to hear.. there is a lot of background noise,

Me - hello, uuh.. can you hear me now?

CSA - feebly ma'm, if you do not mind, can you spell the letters?

Me - okay, sure, its 

r - as in Radio, 

a - uumm,, - as in Apple

j - as in Jam

i - uuuhnmm... i for say "I Phone"??? 

(Shocked... surprised... couldn't I have said I for India,,, Indiana,,, Igloo... I said I Phone??)


Woww...I thought over that after a while...my name just became a list of electronics....  A for apple (I cannot remember if I actually meant the fruit apple). 

I am pretty sure this is the broader US effect, narrowing to the "Apple electronics" effects, and narrowing more to the "I Phone 4" effect....

It is amazing to see the effect of Apple electronics on the market... no more do we have to press the buttons on phone to make a call.... its all as simple as touching them....

A couple of years ago, when I was teaching my mom how to play solitaire on the computer, she (who by the way was very new to the world of computers, mouse and other things..) asked me if she could directly touch the screen and drag the cards instead of using mouse. She asked me because of her difficulties with mouse and I laughed at her saying that "mom, sure!! pretty soon" and after 1 year, we saw I Phone entering the market. When it came out, I was shocked to see that we can actually use our fingers to do anything on screen!! What a revolution!!!!

I am not an I Phone fan and not even going to buy that (for my personal reasons..).. but definitely I Phone is the "baap of all smart phones", especially the touch phones. The applications have become an indispensable part of our lives... mobile networking... e mailing... banking.. everything with a cell phone and a few taps on screen... 

When machines started taking over the manual life a couple of centuries ago, people said we are getting more and more mechanized.. I wonder what that generation will say to us now...everything is electronic... digital.. computerized... Many people know and have heard about Pranav Mistry ( ya ya... our fella Indian!!)... an MIT guy, who is already revolutionizing the scientific world with his genius concept of using sixth sense to get things done.. just with a "thought in mind"..

Whats next??? Any thoughts??