Communication

With the arrival of internet and email services postal services are no longer a much needed means of communication at least in cities and among the educated population. The only time now I see a postman is when he visits us in Diwali for Bakshish. Godolphin’s last post about things we miss made me ponder what if computers become a thing of past some day, then what? What will be our mode of communication then, will technology evolve much more or will it be our minds.

Just a vague hypothesis, if we stop relying on technology and start using our minds to communicate. What will it be like if we communicate through telepathy? When computers where invented they were few and far, not everybody could afford a personal PC. Internet cafes started sprouting like soaked beans. Emails was a new idea, people were not really comfortable with the machine. Even I was scared of computers and would prefer sending mails and cards by post or courier. But eventually the craze caught up and here I am trying to tame this stupid machine, which is always one up on me with its new errors and viruses. My point is we are now comfortable with this machine, its part of our lives now, just like a toothbrush, we do not miss the old services only remember them once in a while nostalgically.

May be someday communicating through computers would be passé and we will be dependant only on our own resources. We will be able to send and receive messages instantly, not that we cannot do that with computers. But both the parties involved have to be accessing the computers at the precise time. Whereas if we transmit a message through telepathy the moment you have thought of it, there in a few seconds or minutes its been received and you don’t even have to type it. Not everybody has access or can afford to buy a computer same way not everybody will be evolved enough to use their mind for communication. Hence may be we will have Kiosks or cafes where people with highly developed and channelled minds will be at our service to transmit messages. Postman’s in an entirely different perspective. And no cost involved, the hardware is already there our mind functioning as processor, memory and hard disk. No tension of servers crashing or virus attacks or mail boxes full of spam. Uninterrupted transmission to any part of the world or should I say Universe.