Going the GenX

Welcome to the world of tablets and smart phones! Thanks to the gadget-freaky world around. While I was coming out of City Central, Chennai yesterday, I remembered the days when I used to stand in a long queue at UCO bank for a money withdrawal. During my summer holidays at school back in the year 2001, my dad and I used to do a small round up of Tirupati(my home town) to pay the electricity and telephone bills, get the passbook updated for our savings accounts from the bank, log a complaint with the cable tv connection provider and book a cooking gas cylinder refill. Since past 4 years, I didn't have to move my butt from the desk, to do any of these things. Bills can be paid online for all the things once can think of and all the things one can't. All the routine jobs like taking the orders are attended to over the phone. We made manual intervention in our jobs as minimal as possible. A decade of IT revolution in the Indian cities has brought tremendous change and hence many opportunities in the first decade of the 22nd century.

Working on PCs has already become old-fashioned. Forget about laptops! With 3G around the corner, Smart Phones and Tablets became a necessity. The local satellite cable TV providers are fading out. 3D TVs and home theatres are hitting the market. It's hard to find someone without a mobile phone! There are always means to stay informed, if you have to or want to. For instance, office mails! It is as if the world is breathing the internet. Tweets and Wallposts are the bed coffees for the net-ridden world.