Gone are the days when Computers are considered as Office-Equipment only.Having some knowlodge about Computer and having one at our own disposal is not longer a status symbol to atttract awe and attention.Lets admit it..Computers are one among many of the necessary items . Even a dingy one-room office with 3 staff will have a computer to keep track of the little activity they have.
One more such gadget is the “Moblie Phone”.Its no longer a luxury to be having a mobile.It is diffucut to ign0re “oh-you-dont-have-a-mobile-number” look.Though the handsets vary in price from that affordable by the CEO’s and those in possession by rickshaw-wallas, milkman ,or for that matter even your local roaming-in-cycle vegetable-vendor.
I am not going to continue on how useful / useless these gadgets are.I am more intrested in sharing my opinion on what various generations think ig these gadgets.(Here I am sticking to only Computers and mobile phones)
GENERATION – T (T – Terribly Traditional)
They belong to 50-75 yrs of age For this generation all the gadgets are the same.Their generalised opinion is …. its some electronic thing that belongs to my son/grandson … i dont venture to handle these things..what if i break it or
render it un-usable by pressing some wrong combination of those buttons…moreover.. i am not intrested in all these trendy-flashy-fancy things. They just seem to as sheer waste of hard earned money. one slip by us and it costs a mountain to
get it repaired…blah..blah..blah…. (over the days when these things were not freely available as of now)….
GENERATION – CC (“Cautions & Caught” between Traditional and genX)
They belong to 30-5o yrs of age
This is the “CAUTIOUS” generation.I pity them so much as they are CAUGHT between Techno-phobic-parents and Techno-centric(perhaps even techno-manic) -children .
Their opinion would be….hmm.. so how much does this gadget cost ?..(cost is prime concern..functionalities are just secondary)
Now the difficult part of convincing the Gen-T (ie parents) explaining why the gadget is worth the cost and conving the Gen- x (ie children) requesting them to take time and teach them how to use the gadget effectively and also request help on any Trouble-shoot conditions.
GENERATION – X (Techno-centric cult)
They belong to 0-30 yrs of age ( I belive, a new born’s first toy is his/hers parents mobile)
This is the “Bindaas” generation.Cost in immaterial…features and functions are not-compromised for they have their fundas innplace.Any troubleshoot with the gadget “Alt+Ctrl+Del” will solve all problems.
Why I am giving you this introduction…… watch this space… (subscribe to this post)
I promise you will not be dissappointed………….
chao……………………………………..