Intelligent Idiot Box

Television which initially has made everybody wonder at mankind creation, showing life inside a box. Everyone was amazed at its ability but in the 80's it showed its true color when the TRP ratings were at the peak, it started ruining the lives of the people. Now people realised the consequence in getting addicted to it. Similar to the idiot box is the computer. People now are awestruck at its ability as a complete package. They can work on it, play games on it, shop on it, watch movies on it, listen to songs, manage bank balances,talk on it, attend conferences. They dont need to go anywhere. Its ability to connect people across the globe has made it one of the greatest inventions of mankind.

But, there are always critics and so I am here to criticise it in some aspect. I feel that it is spoiling people more than anything today. It is the most anti social element in the society for people are going out less are becoming less sociable. The trp ratings are falling down, the entertainment industry, movie industry has been suffering losses to the tunes of crores since past 5-6 yrs. It is like giving a child a bat in one hand and a pen in other hand and asking him to chose one of them. He would obviously chose bat for it entertains him. Similarly we are providing people with a computer where in he can watch movies, involve in conversations and also work, study. So what does he chose? I dont know about the level of intelligence today but surely many students are using computers for playing games and watching movies, listening to songs. And with the broadband era coming to the fore I predict there would be more number of drop outs. Successful students are the ones who use the system less and would rely on books more. The problem with a computer is similar to that of TV. Watching Tv is only input,taking in, we dont think on anything we just watch it, there is no output. Similarly while studying on the computer we tend to only read and not think on the subject we are reading. Thus the brains get rusted. I think it should be like we read through the books and produce the results on the system.

So the most intelligent invention of man might become another idiot box with additional qualities added to it. I guess man should stop trying to invent something that looks like a box. I could not express it effectively but I hope u got a view of what I wanted to say.