A peep into the past and ever changing world

A peep into the past and ever changing world

With the dawn of 21^st century-the era of machines, automatic technology and many more, it has completely overpowered the way the world looked once upon a time. Like the story of “Alice in Wonderland” there’s a complete makeover of the way technology has completely transformed our world. At the very moment an age old adage “Necessity being the mother of all inventions” scripted truly by its inventor strikes my memoirs.

               Undoubtedly this has become a facet of modern day life when reality bites show that human craze to dominate almost everything with shear will, wild imagination coupled with the awesome trio of necessity, hoards of desires and preferences paving way for a transformed life. Needless to point out that there are certain things which are eliminated/extinct as a methodology of “survival of fittest”.

              Some of the man-made inventions that were once very popular, but have now been phased out completely paving way for newer, faster, dynamic inventions. Some of the examples are as given below:

v  Letters and post office: The first thing to get completely wiped out with the present ever changing context is the yester year’s best mode of communication and medium of exchange of communication-Letters & post office. In July 2013, these one’s powerful medium of communication was completely phased out.  Attributes which lead to extinction of these common man’s best friend are:

1.       Slowness and emerging technologies: Today the era is marked by the world of E-net and E-mails which are very dominant, ultra fast, modern and can be accessed by anyone, anywhere even when on the go. There’s absolutely no time being wasted as well as to be waited to receive a communication as in case of letters and being on queues in post offices

2.     Adaptability, Accessibility, and Utility: Letters as well as post offices used to dominate world of communication for almost as long as human civilization existed. But slowly started losing its sheen with advent of 21^st century when technology started replacing even human beings. It has also created waves amongst people as it’s free, convenient, accessible from anywhere & anytime even while one is on the move and can even be used to share or even act as medium of exchange of commodities etc which cannot be possible through letters, but yes through post office it can be shared, but we have to wait a long time till we get the final verdict.

3.     Used to be effective during defense combat: Letters used to be an effective medium to communicate to defense personnel families during wake of emergency situation. However it used to take a long time for the news to reach to the other end, sometimes after death of a person. So wireless radio telephones, emails etc were used for conveying message instantly.

v  ATM’s: Though these machines are still being kept in loop due to being an effective medium to perform hoard of financial activities right from depositing cash in teller machine, withdrawing it as per time & convenience, getting updated about the available balance in an account which is like acting in a mini bank etc has far from getting diminished in near future as they would pave way for smart cards or self cashed card having a credit/debit limit that can be adjusted as per their utility at any point of time from anywhere without incurring extra charges. It also thus helps to reduce waiting time, transactional time, purchasing activity and last but not the least security involved in transactions.tc. So don’t be surprised if one would not find ATM’s in near future.

                Apart from these changes there are certain other developments taking place in ever changing and dynamic world. Here in this era when technology gets obsolete not within days or months, but in minutes, many more such things are going to be wiped out as they would pave way for newer, advanced, instant gadgets and things enhancing communication as well as connectivity between people.