I know Marco will be more than happy to read this one.. and possibly contribute as well…
Now I know we live in the 21st Centuary n all that.. and that we have reached such far advancements that you get cell phones with memory which is slightly less than MY COMPUTERS!! ( ya I got a real old system at home..)
But today was possibly one of those realization moments for me… I was chatting with my good friend Rowena online today… she was telling me about how loverly Coorg is and how she wants to take forward her holidaying idea online… (Rowena does bookings for those people who want to holiday in Coorg, with staying, transport everything…) so right now she is doing this by sending all her friends details about holidaying in Coorg via mail and how to contact her, and then count on their referrals and word-of-mouth to spread the word.. so she was now looking at making a website… so she asked me about details and stuff.. (since I am in a Media Agency) and I in turn asked my Good Friend Natasha if she could help out Rowena.. (Natasha is my chirpy friend from office who recently got married, to a handsome hunk I must say, and now is in Chennai) so Nats told me to get Rowena to get in touch with her..
So I shared email i.d.s and within a matter of 10mins, Rowena added Natasha on G Talk, they chatted and shared ideas and costs, finalized on something (rough) and now Natasha is going to share and estimate of the total cost of the work with Rowena on Monday! All this in TEN MINUTES and with Rowena being in Coorg, Natasha in Chennai and ME in Mumbai(that too Kanjurmarg)!!
Now THAT surely speaks volumes of the reach of technology and making the world smaller by shrinking boundaries and blurring out borders!
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I hear ya, dude. And kudos to your friend and Ro--I think this is a perfect example of how technology should be used--to affect REAL change in REAL life!
ReplyDeleteToo often, we tend to get enraptured with new technologies, or use familiar technologies (such as the Internet) in frivolous ways. But it's when we used these tools to bring about change in our real lives that technology truly begins to work for us.