Technology is truly growing by leaps and bounds these days. Every day sees the emergence of some new-fangled gadget that is destined to make our lives easier and easier and easier.
It is quite a stretch to have to imagine that the telephone is not even a hundred years old. Just look at the number of innovations that have been made as far as phones are concerned. We have moved from needing operators to connect us to various numbers, to being able to do it ourselves. We have shifted our places quite literally from a telephone that was latched to a wall or switchboard, to one that can actually be carried everywhere. The world really seems to be progressing at a dizzying pace. And nobody wants to slow it down.
Instant gratification is what we look for these days. We no longer want to visit the bank to stand in long queues. We tell ourselves that we will spare ourselves the headache by doing a bank transfer or checking our whether the salary came in online. Instant noodles started off this whole craze for instant gratification, and now everything has to be instant. Buying travel tickets, booking hotels, getting movie tickets, everything has been simplified...