MOBILE SUPERMAN-IAC

MOBILE SUPERMAN-IAC
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Would you have ever imagined that a simple telephone invented to talk to people over larger distances would transform so drastically and evolve into a multitasking gadget?

The simple telephone instruments in the yester-years with the dialing facility was the plain vanilla type of landline, which could be used to make calls to other such telephone lines through an exchange…after many beeps …and lots of hopes and prayers! The only other function they could perform was to serve as a paper-weight!

“Hello, How are you?”, is the friendly manner in which we used to begin our conversation in those days. With the advent of the mobile phones, we now begin the conversation with, “Where are you now…?”

That is going to change now once again. With the advent of the Global Positioning System, it would now be possible to locate the exact position of the person being called.

Our conversations now begin with “Why the hell are you in the Bar? You were saying there is some work in the Office!”

Anyway, on the positive side, with the new age mobile phones you can already do a lot of things, besides talking, as you know. FM Radio, Camera, Instant Messaging, emails, alarms alerting you for meetings, birthdays, TV programs.

With Bluetooth, Infrared, and what-have-you, it would be possible shortly to link up with your other gadgets and probably use it like a remote for your TV; turn on your AC; or defrost your refrigerator from anywhere in the world!

I would not be surprised if the miniature wonder gadget would even tell us of our Blood Pressure, Blood Sugar, pulse etc have gone out of the normal range… or even call up your doctor or send him a message on its own, without you having to move your finger, in such eventuality!

I wonder whether we will still call it a Mobile Phone? Or a Mobile Personal Assistant?

I foresee that it is not far away that I shall be in the Bar, My wife will call and say “You have had enough…I understand from the breathalyzer function installed in your Mobile Personal Assistant that you have already had 4 large ones!”

To which, I can only proclaim “Oh., Hell!”. Times would have turned a full circle from “Hello” to “Oh, Hell!”