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Once upon a time, the mode of communication used to be only face to face interactions and body expressions. As people across the globe started exploring new civilizations, new lands, new cities, new rivers, new mountains, sand and beaches, it brought along with it, the need for more effective means of communication. This created the need for ‘long distance communication’, and solution was found in the form of pigeon messengers. Times moved and by 19th century we heard the first tring tring with ‘bells’ ringing his first phone. The invention lasted for a long time, but as the curiosity kills the cat so is the human mind. The researches kept on happening, people kept on improving the mediums of communication, kept on improvising the phones developed by Graham bell. Finally, Martin Cooper came up with first mobile phone in 1980s. Nobody wud’ve ever thought in those days that this wonderful invention meant to bridge the distances and bring people closer will become source of breakdown of humanity globally. Something which will lead to paradigm shift in the believe system, thought process and social structure of mankind. There were days when people were identified by their character, personality, knowledge, achievements, wisdom, intelligence, humor etc. today the differentiation between personalities is greatly supported by brands person is wearing in various forms, be it clothing or accessories or vehicle one drives and now the most integral part “the Mobile Phone”. Mobile phone has become an extension of our personalities. People nowadays are not identified by the wisdom they carry, but by how many megapixels they have!, how many GBs of internal memory they carry or how many Mh of battery they have! Those who feel its Russian and greek, these are some of the features of our latest mobile phones, who are called ‘smartphones’ because they are getting smarter than their creators! We cry, we crib, we smile, we laugh, we explore, we get angry, we get excited, we get delighted, we get pissed off, we buy, we sell, we order, we search, we enjoy, we love, we marry - not with our beloved family or friends but with our ‘smartphone’ enabled with superfast internet, on 5’’ guerilla glass super amoled screen! Smartphone has become an integral part of our decision making, in fact for some, its not the wisdom of their parents, friends or elderly which matters, what matters is inputs given by Prof.Google! “Google mein agaya hai to theek hee hoga” ! A decade back for school projects and assignments, kids used to search books in libraries, newspapers, visit old books shops, used to go through 4-5 books or magazines to get the right content. Today it takes minutes to prepare any assignment without literally racking much brain. Our brain is draining off, we do not want to think, we have stopped believing in the phrase “every good thing takes time”, we are more and more adopting “instant food” phenomenon. We want everything to come to us without wasting any time and without making any efforts. We believe more in telling the whole world that “I got up at 6 in the morning to jog” or send picture of first time sitting on a rickshaw or sharing a message with 10 friends, because it says if I don’t share, I will lose my job today! People have started feeling more peer pressure because they are carrying 4 mega pixel wala phone, while their best friend is carrying 8 megapixel wala, and voila, in market there is one with 20 megapixel! Megapixel has become latest status symbol and Mh the new differentiator. Adopting technologies has no harm. Like we say “Change is always for betterment”. But excess of everything is bad, and this phrase is getting more and truer day by day. We should surely use ‘technology’ as means of convenience but not try to replace our brain with it. We are leaving our grey cells to die their own death. We do not want to spend time on thinking, because “we don’t want to waste time”. Thinking leads to energizing the brain cells, it stimulates nerves, it ignites our mind with fresh thoughts, it helps to think about same topic with different dimensions. But we are ready to leave all this behind for the sake of saving time “google hai na”! We really need to come out of this “instant” syndrome. We really need to treat technology as enabler instead of decision maker. We should not let our emotions getting replaced with set of smileys in our life. We should not let “miss you mom” sms be the answer to mother’s missed call, because you were busy on completing final level of asphalt 8! Let us stay as humans, because that’s how God has created us. Let’s our identity not get measured in megapixel and our wisdom “powered by octacore processor”. Be Human, Stay Humane. -Shad Zaman