Decade finito

Amidst all the new year celebrations, an important event seems to have been overlooked.( Yeah, I count 1-10 as one decade and not 0-9, my blog, my rules) Its a new decade too. The previous decade has ended. Maybe, its a moment to take a stock of this journey. Where was I at the start of this decade? I think this was the first complete decade that I remember from the beginning to the end.

The single biggest change that has been influential in almost everyone's life i believe would be in the field of technology. Who would have imagined in 2000 that mobile video chatting would be common in 2010? Can anyone forget those 56kbps lines, the screeching sounds of the dialup modem, trying so very hard to establish contact with the digital world so that one could check emails. The ever so long wait for the images to download as each big fat pixel barely managing itself to squeeze itself out of the anorexic telephone line. The ever so reliable floppy disks. The dreaded 'Error reading drive' messages that made even the holiest amongst us mutter out a few curses. The omnipresent big red 'coin' STD boxes that were the 'stationery mobile phones'. Now, they are replaced by the young, sleek ones. Like senile old men, they stand alone reminiscing about the good old days, while looking down upon their younger versions. And the mother of all changes, the Internet. We have all become 'wired in'...everyones choosing the blue pill. No takers for the red pill i guess. Oh Neo!, where art thou? Maybe I should 'Google' him

Global warming, doomsday, nuclear war, terrorism....whilst everything else looks bleak, the only space that looks promising is Technology. It has been one crazy decade and as the new one begins, indications are that it should be one helluva one too! Happy new decade to the chosen few who found the above crap interesting enough to read up until here!