Modern gadgetry has been structured to test the tenacity of our dispositions. To tell us how inadequate and incapable we all are and how intelligent and smart are the youngsters of the day - quick speaking, quick acting, and quickly moving on.

I have been grappling with mobile phones and iPads and iPhones for most of the day and though at the end of it I am none the wiser, it does create within me a sense of wisdom in at least attempting to understand the damn gadget. Understand is also a somewhat exaggerated term. It does require a large amount of knowledge beyond understanding to accomplish what the instrument was meant to accomplish.

By the end of it all, what comes through is that the human has decided to minimize the usage of our faculties, and allow these wonderful objects of technical desire to take over our systems. Eventually they would wish that the screen on your mobile would do all that one does manually through out the day. Each day man thinks and contemplates how best he or she can devise something which can be an alternative to manual labor and better still an alternative to the functioning of the brain itself.

When all our functions shall be controlled or dependent on that small little discovery of the century, the chip, our faculties that have been brought up to function in  a particular manner, shall become redundant. Where would mankind then go, or would he not go at all but instead fall prey to the very object he invented.

I have problems remembering my own mobile number at times, or at times the numbers of near and dear, simply because we have discovered a marvelous method of forgetting them - we have allowed the machine to take over from us, a job most of us would gladly want to be in. With memories of the chip storing every thing, why do we need a brain. When objects of desire can think for us, why on earth would we want to nurture our own natural God given utensils.

I have come this far only because I have been struggling with multiple phones and its mechanics the whole morning. I have been struggling also with the Mac and discovering elements that were hidden from my observation and that they would be of such great assistance to me in the future, provided I was able to find time to educate myself on them. This I start tomorrow and having done so am certain it shall not be taking too long before I would be in the enviable position of the master of the Mac and the Nokia.

Our dependence on the more affluent… more stand out, shall perhaps die after  years and years of voice excellence in the shape of the kind of connectivity that we all want.

The larger than life cinema is a complete example  of all the above. In time I believe there shall be robots performing to the camera. We could be sitting in the comfort of our vanity vehicles and allow intrusions into our space, and God knows that would be the ultimate life that we have all struggled for. But I wonder if that is the accepted desire.

But all said and done it is an exciting thought - keep the mind occupied with all sorts, for somewhere it is registering an education.

My mobiles and my Mac will be seeing a lot of each other soon.

Sooner than when I shall slip away into slumber ..

My love to all as before .. with warmth, love  and understanding ..

Amitabh Bachchan