technology

technology has brought amazing things to our lives.

internet, my interest at work, is one of them.

and internet based applications [utilities] have impacted the lives of people as much.

i have never stopped wondering about the element of chance that internet has brought to many lives. take for example chat rooms [i am talking about them because it serves the basic human instinct - mating :p]. this is just pure chance that you enter a chat room and find a person with whom you strike a conversation for long enough to take ahead from there. now, this is pure chance. it might have been possible that the algorithm could have taken you to a different room, or the person could have spammed you, or even the person could have changed the room itself or your power could have failed or the person's computer could have hung or both your and his internet connection could have conked off... i mean there are all kind of possibilities.

messenger is an amazing application

but yesterday i used another application which i was very well aware of but have never used much. google earth [piece of art]. i could see a very familiar place [delhi - yamuna {it looked beautiful and not-dirty :D} and other surroundings] from a perspective completely foreign to me and i could see a place [times square, hong kong] i never talked about twice in a day in my life and feel strangely excited about.

crazy things technology does to people...