Those were the
days, when my grandparents had to go to the Library to check out some detail. A
letter to their son in Great Britain meant a lot of things. . . letter to be written, enclosed in cover,
taken to the Post office, correct stamp charge to be found after weighing,
stick the purchased stamps and post it. Then, wait for a week to assume that
the letter had reached their son in GB. Everything took time and some effort.
Nowadays, the same things take just a few minutes, only the medium has changed.
As I think of
all these things and look ahead to some not so very far day I see some
fantastic things. . . . . . . . . .
·Wake-up call on the networked system in my house is in my mother’s
voice. Only occasionally I choose the option of setting some other voice. ·The bathtub I get into, sets the water temperature to match my body
temperature and the ambience. After a comfortable bath, breakfast follows.
· As I take my breakfast my cellular phone rings and to my surprise
it is my Uncle and Aunt speaking from MARS. They had decided to take a vacation
there. On the video phone, I see that they are so happy as they talk to me.
Nice thing. I should ask my daddy to take us there for the next holidays.
· Breakfast over and I wait for my pick-up vehicle. I lived in the
NEW city.
·The entire community is mapped onto a three dimensional mobility
structure. Time optimised pathways for that particular day take me to my
workplace in the shortest time. All this is something like the suburban railway
system in the OLD city, but more intelligent here.
In INDIA, the OLD continued with
the NEW .
We are now the
leaders of the WORLD and only CHINA
had peer status in some WORLD & Planetary Organisations.
At the workplace, the Entrance chamber
had the Identification pad on which one had to stand. The body structure of
every staff member is scanned simultaneously with an eye check and EEG scan.
When everything checked out, the entrance door would open, to let one in.
If some harmful
restlessness in the brain activity is detected the display would indicate this
to the person and also advise leave if the abnormality was above the prescribed
level.
After work time
got over I return home. Once there, I find that my brother has had some
accident and twisted his knee joint. Immediate reference to our Doctor and he
conducts a networked check on my brother’s blood through a sample drop that my
brother had dropped into the Analysis vial at the home node. After the Doctor’s
System goes through the analysis the particular chemical to prevent any
infection is prescribed for my brother.
BIOINFORMATICS had made medical treatment so very accurate
and personalized. Also operations had become more so precise with the MEMS
[Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems] technology. The design for these devices was
mostly being done in INDIA, the Hardware was being made in CHINA, while even
there a few basic things were being manufactured in INDIA. Both INDIA and CHINA
had some of their less crucial centres located in the USA, Russia and a little
bit in GB. This helped the World economy.
If one needed to
relax, one took time of to visit one’s house in the OLD city and went around in
one’s HYDROGEN driven cars.
I could go on and on about ALL the
advances.
So much; so much would have changed.
My father and mother may feel happier to be
left alone in our OLD city home – with their fast [5GHz] handhelds which had
everything and the Planetary TV Broadcast for their entertainment. Their
occasional picnic was a run in their HYDROGEN driven cars to some nice
countryside!
[From n ln
, in JOURNALISM ONLINE, Issue No:
69, NEWSLETTER, November 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/journalismonline/message/69
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/journalismonline/message/69
[ED.: N. Watson
Solomon (aka Nirmaldasan)]
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