For all the people in the engine room of technology and IT tools. Slow down and read this news item from BBC.
I remember my first year in college. I stayed at a place with not many eat outs around. We had one "puttu nair" for breakfast. No questions - he will have only puttu and pazham. At times a blue moon and he will have "payaru". A "kanjikkada" for the afternoon "kanji". The same kanji everyday, his choice of curry from payaru/kadala etc.
with occational "mathi porichathu". Evenings back to Puttunair for his "chaya" and "pazham pori". Life was so cool and had no confusions. No choice was good.
Recently moving from Trivandrum to Bangalore (though through an international route) I faced the same problem. Trivandrum being the capital village of Kerala was better of sorts in terms of choice. No choices. Want to buy a shirt - go to Parthas. Kids dresses, same place. Cane furniture? Near LIC. Food? Veg or non-veg? Answer that you get the location too. In Bangalore, there was no right answers - only approximate answers, that too, too many. Was life better? Not in any way for me.
So go on creating more options and choices. My Nokia 1100 worked fine for the purpose in Bangalore. The FOMA 901i in Tokyo boasts for WCDMA bandwidth, 2M camera, 64K colour screen. Voice of the customer comes as harsh as ever.
Anyway read what the industry is asked to think on
BBC NEWS | Technology | Time to switch off and slow down
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