LAPTOP IS OUR LIFE!

SUNNY THOMAS

Seventy per cent of the successful people spent 60 per cent of their conscience time on laptops! Success today is measured not by the Rolls-Royce, or Volkswagen, or Ferrari you are chaffer-driven in, which any rich fool can afford. Or the number of private islands like Singer Castle (Canada), or Cabbage Bay (Bahamas) or Necker Islands (British Virgin Islands) you own which any tax swindler can buy. But your success is measured by the number of quality hours you spent on the laptop.

In the mad-mad globalised world, husbands love their wives and wives, their husbands through laptops. Smart children love their parents and smart parents, their own children through laptops. We order our food, clothes and travel tickets through laptops.

Why, we even think through laptops. But some think-tanks let their laptops think for them. Our families are united through laptops, as we have papa laptops, mama laptops, baby laptops!  

Today Charles Babbage would not recognize his own brain-child. He designed a computing machine in the mid-1800 to make tedious calculations simple and speedy, and the original computers were so huge that they would occupy a whole spacious room.

It took over a century for the first portable computer, Osborne 1, to arrive. Produced by Adam Osborne, an ex-book publisher in 1981, it was not a commercial hit. Two other portable computers entered the market in 1983 making a reasonable profit. The Compaq Portable and Epson HX-20 had revolutionary features. 

In 1982, Microsoft the late-comer, was only at the discussion table – planning a design using  a new liquid crystal display (ICD screen). 

In Orwell’s 1984, IBM inaugurated the age of (portable) Personal Computers (PCs) which revolutionized communication. In 1989, Compaq Computer released the first Notebook. In 1991, Microsoft introduced the ballpoint mouse, and Apple Computers, the PowerBook. In 1992, IBM released the Think Pad, and Intel and Microsoft, speed and power through APM (Advanced Power Management specification).

In 1993 arrived The Pen, computers that you can hold in hand. Since this demon’s gadget, Investigative Journalism – the bet noir of all corrupt politicians – was never the same.

As technology advanced, they became slimmer and slimmer so much so that a provocative ad displays an adorable damsel declaring, ’Mouse and men, I can handle in my palm.’ Indeed, a blasphemy against the species of male!  

 

Now the spy bird whispers that America and Japan are vying with each other to design the first Porn-lap, which is a satellite-linked laptop which embraces all porn sites (and spy bed sites) on any part of the globe. It is so sleek that you can take it to the bathroom or to the Karnataka Assembly.