Actually, I had difficulty logging onto elearn, school email and oasis last night. It was as though the school websites hated me or something! I checked with my friends and they had no difficulty getting into the websites, it was only ME. Naturally, I got really pissed off and angsty would be an understatement. So today at dinner my dad brought up this situation and asked "are you really that dependent on the internet" with a skeptical look on his face. WOAHH dejavu much! I proceeded to explain why these websites were so essential during the course of my university life and we both spent some time lamenting over this dependency. Can you imagine, if its during the bidding period and oasis fails to load? Can you imagine, your prof uploads readings onto elearn and you have no way of accessing it in time to prepare for class? Imagine again, important emails being sent to your school email, all of which require immediate attention, yet you keep getting prompts of a sign in error. Oh the horror! Many a times I would be in the midst of an interesting (though not necessarily important) conversation on msn and all of a sudden the internet gets wonky and I get disconnected. The rage that ensues ain't no joking matter I tell you. The frustration, the furious clicking trying to get back onto msn. Trivial matter, but definitely one of the First World's problems. /"Problem"
Another thing we talked about was about mobile phones, how it has evolved to the market's two big giants, Apple and Blackberry. I found out that the first phone, you know the big phones used in the ancient chinese traid dramas, are actually under the Motorola brand! But imagine now, motorola is no longer considered when one is choosing a phone to buy. Motorola, Siemens and Samsung are just some of the few phone brands that I grew up with but have now slipped into oblivion. Even Nokia is facing the strong threat of the Blackberry and Apple giants.
"Motorola was not able to keep up with times, their technology was not up to date and this is why they were kicked out of the race" - dad
Wise words from the dad reminded me that there is a need for technology to be evolving. In my previous post, I questioned the need for the ever evolving technology and why people would want it despite the obvious setback of over-dependency. Now, I realize that one reason would be that companies want to remain relevant and not get kicked out by competitors.
Intellectual dinner conversations, win (y)
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