Category: Science & Technology

Technology today is changing at a hectic pace. Keeping up is causing me breathlessness. Damn, I must commit to some workout here.

On occassion I feel like I’m spinning my wheels and not moving anywhere fast. So much work, so little progress. Sounds almost vogonian.

I am writing this from my blackberry mobile phone. Sounds cool, but it isn’t. Blackberry is a form of curse. I am forever connected. Work emails keep coming in. I get tetchy whenever the LED blinks red: “fazz, you got mail you bastard” says the device to me. Very so not funny. If only I could cuss back at the phone.

Being a tech geek, I am forever fascinated by new technology developments. Those in the communications sphere certainly appeals to me. But strangely enough, it’s not because I want to be connected all the time… But more because it interests me to be able to be connected WHEN I want to. WHENever I WANT is the key phrase here.

So I am looking at phones. Today I read that internet godzilla google is creating a linux based phone of its own. Damn. Imagine the world’s ultimate search engine finding people wherever they are! To be fair, I am conjecturing here. But google IS the world’s monster search engine and the phone is the personal appendage to the connected world. Folks, we are moving into star trek world now.

Then there is the mega-cool apple iPhone. Damn sweet that one. I don’t care too much about the connectedness of apple’s new great thing… But I am smitten by its eye candy and coolness (is it legal to use the word “cool” more than once in a blog?).

Then there is the incredibly capable nokia e90 communicator. The ultimate communicator, the brick. This is the one that does everything but make you coffee. It has a built in internet browser, mp3 player and phone and then some…including full-scale pda, and mini notebook capabilities. And then it can blackberry too. A true workhorse. With the e90 I can be connected whenever I want. Only snag is that it is big. No surprise it is also known as the brick.

But I will have to resist the need to blackberry. Or else I’ll be working 24/7! Still, being connected is not to bad…just as long it is not for work. My work life balance is now severely out of whack and I am worried it would get worse.

So is technology a boon or bane?