A new beginning...

Finally after much pushing and prodding from my friends, i have my own personal little space where i can chatter about anything above the earth and below the heaven. Even beyond the boundaries of both. Let me tell you, this is an exhilarating feeling. A sense of freedom... Something like getting a driving license or flying a plane... Or riding a horse with the wind whipping ur hair all over ur face at a hell-for-leather speed. So in my first post, am going to comment on the very thing which made this freedom possible. Technology. Man, can there be a world without technology? I often doubt it. I wonder how people would have toasted their breads before a toaster was discovered. Or reached a place on time before the invention of engines. A life without tooth brush, paste, vehicle, washing machine, phone, pen, spectacles(had it not been discovered a lot of people wud be half blind!!!!), etc is unimaginable. I don't say impossible because people have lived without these for more years than we have lived with these. But having that level of patience, which is equivalent to sitting and watching a sapling grow into a tree, is amazing!!

But.. That's a pretty BIG 'but'..

Friends, Humans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury technology, not to praise it;
The evil men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones,
So let it be with technology...

When Alfred Nobel discovered dynamite, he never would have imagined it would wreck so much havoc. Almost 125 years after its discovery, dynamite still reigns!! Many a brave men have fallen prey to it and many still falling.. Technology has helped dynamite graduate from hazardous to fatal bombs, with constant updates making it powerfuler and powerfuler. Bombs have become the toys used by terrorists to instill fear and demonstrate their point. Whatever happened to peaceful talks to prove one's points? There was a time when V.K.Krishna Menon made a 8-hour-long speech in th UN defending India's actions on Kashmir, which still remains the longest ever delivered in the history of UN. A pity he didnt think of bombing a few cities to drive home his point!!
And talking about the effects of technology itself. The hole made by the latest technology in the ozone layer is big enough to let a NASA space shuttle pass through to the moon. The gap in the Antarctic ice shelf is so wide that a submarine can easily slide into the frozen waters. And the number of species getting into the extinct list is so large that it would make counting them the next time much easier.
If this is what people call 'technology-growing-at-leaps-and-bounds' .. Excuse me.. Am not the person for it. Men are so disillusioned that they think they own the world. They forget to consider the fact that they share it with millions of other creatures from microscopic amoeba to mind-boggling whales. From a tiny sand to majestic mountains. Drops of water to mighty oceans. And the concept of 'Live and let live' has been lost somewhere on the way.
It's high time we looked back at what we have left behind while on the pursuit of comfort.