Excellent and somewhat humorous article

That is definitely worth a read (click the "Related Article" at the end of this post to know what I mean)! A warning to all those wannabe terrorists :-)

On an unrelated note, the title of that page reminds me, as it should, of "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce. That's a bit weird because though I've heard the title of that story many times, especially during my college days, I've never been able to get down to reading it. Blame it on Joyce's style, or maybe my limited intelligence / aesthetics, but I never could read those deader-than-fish-out-of-water stream-of-consciousness writers.

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Technology in our lives

Technology makes our lives come a full circle, but not the way we might have expected.

We invented gadgets and devices to give us more time for leisure. Then we found more things to do in our leisure which, surprise, resulted in us having less leisure. And then the realisation hit us (thanks to TVs, endless ads and gossip columns about movie stars who have "six-pack" abs) that we are, horror of horrors, not healthy and fit. So what do we do? Go to gyms, and use the ultra-high-tech stuff to become "healthy" or lose weight. There are also people who have "discovered" that doing household chores helps in keeping the surging calory levels in check too; and they trumpet their discoveries to their social peers, thereby proving their humility and social liberal-mindedness. Of course, their parents and forefathers did not know better (and don't you dare tell them otherwise unless you're prepared for a prolonged argument) though they might have been telling us exactly the same thing - that being self-reliant (translate that into "do your work yourself") also keeps you healthy, besides giving you a sense of satisfaction. There, I digress as usual.

This new-found health in turn makes us feel better, and so we feel we have earned the right to indulge a little. Just a little. In no time at all, the little turns into "a little more", and then, before we know it, we're back where we started - we have no time.

Technology makes our lives come a full circle, but not the way we might have expected.