Sunday 24 May 2020

Love Saga of the Inspiring Internet and the Ever-Petulant Phone

                               
                                (Internet and Phone: A Power Couple. Image Source: www.pixabay.com)

Do you remember the first time you were mesmerized at the sight of someone? Do you remember falling in love at first sight? Have you ever felt the pain inflicted by bouts of unexpected anxious separation and a desire to be reunited with your beloved? If yes, then I am sure you would want to listen to the greatest love saga of the Inspiring Internet and the Ever-Petulant Phone in the 21stcentury!

The birth of the internet and the phone occurred in the 20th century to a family of pioneering scientists and inventors in the United States of America and Europe. Although birthing of the Internet and Phone were decades apart, both of them were born with a communal purpose and an auspicious destiny. The sages of technology had performed a great Swayamvar where the Internet could choose a spouse to live happily ever after. The contenders at the Swayamvar traveled from faraway kingdoms ranging from the oldest Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) kingdom, Digital-AMPSIBM Simon3G Mobile broadband and the youngest Smartphones kingdom. 

At the turn of the 21st Century, the Internet encountered the stunningly beautiful Smartphone, who was lovingly nicknamed ‘Phone’ by all and sundry. The marriage of the Internet and Phone was divine intervention. The 21st century heralded a strong trend of human migration away from their loved ones in search of political asylum, better-paying jobs, financial security and a stable life far away from war-torn countries. Their marriage digitally connected the entire humankind across the racial divide, political affiliations, and religious inclination in a 24/7 manner. The human citizens were forever grateful and fondly christened their rulers as the Inspiring Internet and the Ever-Petulant Phone, for Phone would often be found moody and ill-tempered when the Internet was away. 

The conjugal bliss of the Internet and Phone brought in a golden era and proved at every step of life that the Inspiring Internet and the Ever-Petulant Phone were incomplete without each other. The Internet and Phone decreed that their human citizens adhere to the following rules: 

  1. Popularise emailing over writing telegrams
  2. Device ‘Apps’ for every aspect of life whether be it financial banking or Yoga
  3. Organise online forums for social communications like Facebook and Twitter
  4. Start electronic commerce for entrepreneurs and companies
  5. Avail online shopping in portals like Amazon, Flipkart
  6. Transmit videos and photos in real-time through WeTransfer, DropBox, Google Drive
  7. Travel to new places using digitised maps and global positioning system
  8. Read books online in Kindle
  9. Listen to music in Spotify
  10. Play online games remotely across the globe
  11. Prepare for examinations through online portals like Unacademy and Simply Learning


The rules set in the kingdom reigned by the Inspiring Internet and the Ever-Petulant Phone remained unchallenged; until one day there was a coup, which forced Internet and Phone’s separation. The enemy called ‘Fake News’ had infiltrated through the ironclad radar of antiviruses and forced humankind to imprison the Internet and Phone into dungeons of obscurity. Fake News disseminated its army of deliberate misinformers to create mistrust, social disharmony and delegitimise facts especially in countries when laws and governance were challenged and changed. Fake news succeeded in disrupting 24/7 global human interaction irrespective of time zones, online marketing, ‘App’ based e-commerce. 


In the years ruled by the Internet and Phone, humans had disregarded archaic habits of reading bound books, writing letters and interacting with people in their neighbourhood. Alas, humans fondly remember the Inspiring Internet and the Ever-Petulant Phone as “death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal”. 


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