Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Understanding Technology

I wrote my last management exam the day before. It was on strategic management of technology. I somehow managed to write an answer to some shitty question dealing with understanding technology. But that was in the books...in real life...I think technology is the most abused whore of this millenium...thats what I wanted to write...n I had even had thought of some examples to fetch extra points...

Digicams: The digitization of photography surely saved all of us a lot of bucks on the film rolls and positives, and a lot of time too. I've seen people shooting 5-6 stills for a single pose. I mean if you suck so much at photography, why don't you let someone else do it...why insult the camera. A mule can probably click a better picture in lesser attempts. They have also taken abstract photography to new heights. I frequently find pictures with weird angles and exposures and I have to sit and delete half of the photos before copying them to my hard drive. Thanks to more than half of the people of my generation who have taken up photography as an 'active' (rather hyperactive) hobby lately. And those misconceived bunch of fucks who either want to be in every single picture clicked in their presence or want a picture with anyone and everyone within a sixteen mile radius of the camera...it is like a dream come true for them. One picture with Tom, one with Dick and one with Harry...

Cellphones: These are undoubtedly the most useful invention of our time. No other technology has transformed our lives like these. And with cellphone prices and tarriffs going down by the hour, everyone owns a cellphone now. Some fucks use it like a call center employee and keep talking as much as they can...thanks to the free calls tarriff plans. But these fucks at least keep the use restricted to attending calls. There are these newly founds bunch of fucks who use their cellphone as a music players and they piss me off the most. Go to a quiet place around and you'll find someone flashing his cellphone light and the next moment a loud cacophony starts polluting the environment. These motherfuckers can spend a few grands on the cellphone, but they wont spend a penny on a headset...cuz they want to show the world that they have arrived. Now this brings me to the next citation...

Handsfree Headsets: Another appreciable invention which can be of tremendous help when it comes to multi-tasking. These are still on the road to commoditization, but are frequently abused by many of our fellow-earthlings. If you find some sane looking strangers lookin at you, talking to you like you have known each other since ages, don't be surprized. They are the prized possesors of one of the greatest inventions of mankind...a handsfree headset...and they are not talkin to you. Well...I can still take it with a pinch of salt if they are on call 24x7, but a few of these (especially the ones with bluetooth headsets) just keep them on like a life support system. Fucks like these should be turned into cyborgs and then their electromechanical parts should be short circuited.

I think I would have scored full points for this answer, how many would you gimme? :)

3 comments:

Raj said...

On a scale of 1 to 10 I would give you 3. No, not because the content was bad; but because you have swear a lot.

My take is English is the most abused whore of the current decade. Every other nincompoop uses Fuck; & swears like a fish thinking that it shows the command he has over the language & that it makes him look cool! Well it doesn't!

MaVeRiCk said...

:O Oye...U talkin like a prof. Well, I guess its more of a side effect of mba rather than coolness. I have sworn even more in another blog which u seemed to have enjoyed reading.

On a serious note, point noted :)

H43 said...

"Fucks like these should be turned into cyborgs and then their electromechanical parts should be short circuited.".. Hahahaha. I definitely give your answer a perfect 10!