Change is the world

Today as I sat in my room without electricity feeling the burning heat gusts on my face I could not help
but think, who invented electricity? I mean how often one can ask that question to oneself? We are so
used to it that we fail to realize that its technology! Benjamin Franklin did change the course of the world
when he flew a kite on that stormy night. Yes the great man discovered electricity and its power later lit
up our lives.
Walking towards the DSE campus all I see is a road and not John McAdams engineering some 300 years
back that made our travelling more smoother and relaxing. Not to forget Marconi and John Logy Beard
the inventors radio and television who actually made lonesome evenings not so lonely.
Yes we are as used to things as we got them. We rarely stop and think about them. Indeed it‘s not
important to thank Edison every time you switch on a bulb or Graham bell every time you disconnect and
connect to a friend miles away but near your heart. For a change even if you start doing that there are
three things that are sure to happen
a) You will become an encyclopaedia.
b) People will think you are a big showing off
c) People will go sure that you are crazy
Being the children of great revolutions is not at all easy we are so much dependent on gadgets and
equipments that a day in the forest and we may not survive (huh.. who needs to go to the
forest!!!anyways..) we all got a better life than our parents did and rest assured that our children will be
used to an even better life style. My teacher told me the other day that she almost wrote 100-150 letters
to her parents during her student life in a year. However I only use the Indian postage department to
dispatch forms and documents. I find it more convenient to use a cell phone which is more handy in
carrying out communication and please excuse me I would not be able to add to any ones knowledge as I
myself am not aware of the inventor of the mobile phone.
We humans are interesting people. A young lad from Europe may brag about how the inventions made in
his country changed the face of the planet or an Indian over the invention of number system that actually
let to the way the world is. I sometimes ask myself how do people of a particular patch of land become
great for something their forefathers did. The names of whom have gone down in history but lay
forgotten. How does it matter if paper was invented by the Chinese we all use it. A chocolate is equally
delightful to every one despite its roots in Africa.
I personally believe that something that has changed our lives made it much more easy cannot be
attributed to a particular region or society. It belongs to everyone the entire mankind ,the whole of
humanity. I mean India is a great country for the things some of our fore fathers did but I do not become
great just by the virtue of being born in this country. Knowing how to operate technology and to use it is
great enough to prove my association with it. If I know about the Inventor, even better it’s my homage but
talking about how it was invented in my country and later aped by the world its nothing but blasphemy.
It’s time we join hands and look at the world as a globe and not as a map with patches.