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Signs of a tachno-savvy society

I guess almost everyone must have read those forwards like - "You are in the 21st century if...", or "Signs you've been in the Indian IT industry for too long - new ones...". Adding to it I have my own list of incidents/habits that illustrate how intensely our lives have changed and intermingled with the technological environment that we are exposed to nowadays. Following are REAL instances that happened with me or people around me

You've been using computers long enough if:
  • You say –“I’ll write it down” and gesture typing it out with your hands
  • You press/tap the right bottom of the page in a book to turn to the next page.
  • You search for the Ctrl-Alt-Del key on your TV remote while you take a loo break from a movie
  • The TV channel you are watching goes blank and you are searching for a mouse to move (to reset the screensaver)
  • You are asked your address and you say ‘..........@yahoo.com’
  • You tell your dad that you’ll (e)mail your current residential address to him
  • You navigate to Google to find out "best vada pav in andheri"
    [this was a referring link to my blog]
  • Your friend doesn’t respond to your mail for 2 hrs, so you call him to check if he’s fine
  • You ping a friend on Y! Msgr and ask him to call you up
  • You accidentally slept off while working on your laptop; when you get up in the morning you press login to start your day!!
  • And this one happened just today morning. I bought a new suitcase with a number lock, my friend was trying to open it. He asked - "Arey apne bag ka password bata!"
And incidentally, I received this forward ... unfortunately only people knowing Marathi will be able enjoy it ...
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  1. Wondering Wanderer11:32 AM

    and u know u r in a b-school in the 21st century when u write an email late night to the person living in the next room saying "please wake me up at 8 am" :))

    i remember a song i heard few years back, which began with the words "It's my life".. i guess we can all sing a modified version of the same now.. "I.T.'s my life"..

    BTW, why dont u post an english translation of this poem on ur blog too..

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  2. Nikhil Kulkarni9:59 PM

    it isn't a poem .. its a collection of (manipulated) proverbs in Marathi ... a mere translation won't help till one knows the original proverbs ..

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