Is Charles Babbage responsible for the recent Serial blasts throughout the country? A quite intuitive question but totally apt to its core. Reports have suggested that the blasts were linked to an email which was sent through an unsecured Wi-Fi connection. The same old question of the 21st century arises. Is technology worthy of use? The ill-effects of the booming technologies are canopying their benefits and creating a deep dent in the essence of their existence.
Power is synonymous to the amount of knowledge you have or the extent to which you are able to employ the resources available to you in the form of technology. This is what a terrorist does, and this is what an engineer does. An engineer or a professional employs the resources in the most optimized way to create an output which helps him fulfill his appetite for power. But the use of technology in creating terror has been a new chapter explicitly added in the book of ill-effects of technology.
A click is conceived as the source of power these days. It is the click which contributes for sixty percent of our GDP. The emergence of India as a super power is attributed to the numerous clicks which take place in our IT sector.
The click is basically a chimera in a hooded cloak.It was the click which initiated the chain reaction of a dangerous atomic bomb. It was the click which led to the vicious 9/11 attacks on the super power USA. It was the power of click which led people paranoid during the millennium computer breakdown of Y2K.
It is easliy seen that an enormous power is wielded by just a paltry click. Ironical but true.The rise of miniscule pigmies in the form of internet ports, USB drives, wi-fi connections and numerous clicks to create a bloody havoc is inevitable.The age of the Matrix is here to haunt you.Click!