When Smart Smarts.

I have been pondering whether it is time to upgrade to a new phone. The world seems to have taken to the smart phone like a fish to water. Everywhere you look everyone is either touting an i-phone, a blackberry or a Nokia smart phone. But is having one of these so called smart-phones a boon or a bane?

Mankind has already sold its soul and long with it privacy and free time to the invention known as the cell-phone. Reduced to puppet on cellular chains, we are at the beck and call to every Tom, Dick and Harry who decide to interrupt us at any minute at their choosing. People can not comprehend when people decide to unplug themselves and be incommunicado like the good old days when you stepped out and be unreachable. In fact this state of affairs has even led to a television commercial that parodies the phenomenon of walking while talking.

If all this is to be, isn’t the smart phone the incarnation of all things technologically evil. An excellent example of technological determinism, the smart phone goes beyond just enslaving you like other phones by providing you features such as managing your schedule and giving you an incessant urge to check your mails every minute. So you have the working lady who starts reading her mails the moment she steps into a lift or the executive who keeps an eye on his mail whenever his phone pings.

Gone is the age of relaxation. Mankind seems to be eager to invent devices that while making things easier, make us work harder enslaving us in a vicious circle. So to join the madding crowd and invest in a smart phone or keep things simple and silent when need be. That is the question.