Digital Age

[The_Jinx]

Re: Digital Age

@TLK

1. There was a time when they used chisel and hammer to engrave the words in a stone or clay tablet. I am sure that when someone invented paper, pen and ink combo, many must have cried that the art of chiseling and hammering will go away. And it did. But do we miss it?

2. The goal in human life is to reach the desired results with minimum amount of effort. That is what we call progress. Yes every now and then, we face exceptions (like blackouts and data wiep outs, but thin kof those days when to deposit a 200 rupees check, you have to go through 3 clerks, who would open and shut huge ledgers just to find your info.

Chisel and Hammer? I think Chisel, Hammer, Pen etc. have been there simultanously from the beginning. People use to write on stones, leaves, leather skins of animals using some sort of pens. God created pen in the beginning and commanded it to write and it wrote, all that is in Loh-e-Mahfooz.

But even if we take the argument that Pen and paper replaced chisel and hammer then, it was still a replacement that would not have threatened the skills of humans in writing using their hands. Now they would just use their hands to stroke some keys and voila! We all have same writing kind of writting letters essentially in digital world.