The sun rise and the sun set the greatest natural phenomena the strange creativity of nature is digitalized in this world. As we step out of the bed with the beeping sound of the alarmed cell phone we look into our digital watch which runs on solar batteries, and electrify ourselves to do our daily chores, the first thing we go to the bathroom and switch on the water pump, and throw our night clothes into the washing machine, and the machine starts to gyrate, simultaneously we make ourselves clean and ready ourselves to go to school, and our mother makes our breakfast in the electric oven, gas or in the micro-oven, and the electric chimney sucks the pungent air to keep the kitchen clean, the water filter pours the clean water after three stage separation and then only we can drink, and the snarling sound of the refrigerator reminds if I have secretly kept hidden any thing special away from my younger brother who always loves to tease on my delicacies. My father opens his Laptop and enters on line the official VPN(Virtual Private Network) of his office and scans important mails and replies sipping red tea, and his cell phone rings intermittently after every minutes which sometimes irritates me and my mom very much. Good Morning this is the digital world we live, every thing is connected to wires, network, LAN, WAN, 3G, wifi, wimax, or Wireless.
“DIGITAL technology is key to reducing global poverty—mainly because it gives the poor access to vital information, such as weather forecasts and market pricing”. This is the main message of the "2010 Information Economy Report" from the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which was published on October 14th. The general belief is that those who are born between 1980 and 2000 are 24/7 ipeople with technology gadgets. The iGeneration's embrace of technology created digital natives and dotcom kids which colonised the online virtual worlds of, Facebook, Twitter MySpace and orkut, faster than any other generation and have become accustomed to the instant answers and gratification the internet delivers. The addiction of internet is such that the new generation cannot imagine life without the www, alone going a day without updating their status. The style of living is logged on and living out loud.
The digital world has revolutionized the whole world in such a way that each work we do is directly or indirectly connected to some form of digital network. In school the book we are reading is printed on digital technology, the pen, pencil, the cloth we wear, the fan running on classroom, the projector used for science everything is digitalized. Now my father reads most of the important news paper online even before the paper vendors delivers the paper in our home early in the morning. All this digital information, mind-numbing technology, and creative innovation that surrounds us each day is extremely overwhelming, borderline suffocating but in a strange way humbling and inspiring. We grew up bombarded with information overload. We are a spoiled generation, not in terms of material things, but in digital goods. We watched as the tech bubble burst in Silicon Valley, we witnessed 9/11 and26/11(Mumbai Terror attack) while sitting in drawing room, we quit shuffling encyclopedia or books to find something important, and we asked Google, not God, why the sky is blue. We have a reputation of being “know-it-alls” because of all this technology. You can’t blame us, because with the click of our fingers, we feel like we know it all. Now it is true that screen time is very high with teenagers, than on books.
We are optimistic for the future and are more wired and globally connected with our peers than previous generations through emails, Gtalk, Instant chat. Yet, we are facing an economic downturn, a grim job market and a mortgage crisis, We are renting, not buying, borrowing, and not paying dating, not marrying…or maybe that’s just my thought ;).. We are aware of what’s imminent, but hopeful because like I said, we live in a digital world, and with technology, we can find answers, innovate, communicate, educate, spark controversy and conversation, and bring about change. The technology of brick and mortar is already outdated and the concept of B2B(Business 2Business) M2M(Money2Money), etransfer, eshopping, ebanking, mbanking, cloud computing, is catching up fast. It is not very far that we will move out from our computer Classroom to a digitalized classroom where all lessons will be online and instant online exam. At last I would like to wrap up what Richard Dawkins, English biologist said “There is no spirit-driven life force, no throbbing, heaving, pullulating, protoplasmic, mystic jelly. Life is just bytes and bytes and bytes or digital information”
