Of late I wrote a mail to a very dear friend of mine and thereof the relation between these two unique features attached to human life struck to my mind. The plot is that we were not in touch for quite some months as she left India and lives in another country and so it seemed that time (and also geography) has devoured our friendship and thus it seemed time has triumphed. But No, see the technology of E-mails and internet, I wrote a mail to her, and found that technology allows me to trounce the time. So this tussle between the time and the technology became a fodder for my mind for some hours and I wrote things in my diary but I think I should again use technology and write it here on this e-diary. Haha…
Well…I don’t think that there is anything more deep and pervasive in a human’s life than the time of his life, and the technology which surrounds him or which he discovers. If I put it in other words, time is something which is so ubiquitous and so omnipresent. It is more omnipresent than the air, because if you leave Earth you may not find air but the time is there with you. Time may even not be measured by the english words like eternal or continuous as no body's knows the origin of time. For a thing to be eternal, it has to be originated at any point of time in the past. So this point of time in the past defeats the ability of word eternal to qualify the nature of time. You can trace the history of the Earth or the Moon or the Sun or the cosmos or the stars or even of this universe, But can you trace the history of time? I don't think so.
One may say that the human in itself is a universal phenomenon because no matter where you go either in the annals of time or is the directions of geography, you will find a human with universal characteristics. This universal human argument can also be argued for all the other organisms that even preceded human and exist till date. But I will disagree and say that the human universality can be challenged easily and if argued for a particular human, then it stands on an even more thinner ice. In the former, we can see that time was not the hostage of humanity as a whole as it was there even when the earth was not created and the cosmos were still is their primitive age which we (the science humans) have divided accordingly. And as I said, the latter argument is by itself defeated when we see that time is not effected by the birth and death of a human or any other organism or even a non-organism. I think time is the only thing or feature which can claim to be universal, otherwise universality of all those final truths which the humans have always believed to be nothing else but the truth can be challenged and for that matter has always been challenged by the great minds of humanity. So, I hold that time is supreme and its supremacy was never challenged and will remain unchallenged forever.
Now thinking of technology, the first query which comes to my mind is that; why technology was invented?Was it invented to save time or to trounce the time or was it invented irrespective of the time factor and the saving of time (which looks like the defeat of time) was just a consequent offshoot of it. The answer is hard to find. Now it is easy to argue that necessity being mother of invention is also the mother of technology. But I think that this often quoted quotation is not the suprema lex and that in the invention of technology, necessity was not the sole driving force. I myself don’t have a convincing answer to the query I raised, but still I believe that the settled notion needs a second thought and a deeper analysis.
To be Continued…. (Too tired to type now, it’s 5 in the morning..).. I have a write about as to who wins between the time and the technology and how in this win human stands as nothing but a tomfool... BUT LATER.......
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