Jalsa, Mumbai Nov 23/24, 2017 Thu/Fri 12:59 AM
Did you ever consider when they first came out and when you actually used them .. what the delight of having sound right into your ear felt like .. and now how each and every by stander, pedestrian, bike rider, auto driver, car driver .. all have that small white contraption by Apple mobile, stuck precariously onto their ears ..
A distraction yes .. but who is to check and tell .. and who shall guarantee whether it will be followed or not .. a hazard for all users in the way they use it .. but until an unfortunate incident happens, the lesson shall never be learnt ..
Headphones have their moments ..
Most importantly, when they are on your own voice when speaking goes several decibels higher, because you having this volume in the ears at hearing level, feel that they have to shout out their voice to overcome the volume in their ears .. not realising that the volume is only theirs .. not out side and that the outside is normal, so no need to raise the volume .. but it always happens .. at times much to the amusement of those that are in close proximity to the head phone wearer !!!
On flights it happens quite often and at times causing great embarrassment .. none of the other passengers are tuned in to your headphone, so when you speak to the air hostess, or laugh or talk while seeing a movie on flight, the results are well somewhat .. errr .. embarrassing !!
Initially of course the source of the music or the listening source was stationary .. until the walkman first came out .. I mean you could actually walk about with your source where ever you wished .. it was such a remarkable idea .. was it not ..
And now .. there is instant music camera knowledge information games TV any and everything that you could ever imagine .. on your “rectangle” ..
We live through instant times .. we live through times of immediacy .. we live through times having all at all whenever all .. that ‘rectangle’ is the be all and end all of life ..
Two years down the line, one shudders to think what those San Franciscan Silicon Valleyed geniuses will strike up .. or that maximum populated nation in the world shall design as close to the original as possible and capture the market ..
The 75 and above CLUB shall wonder if they shall have enough air to breathe in those rapid and extraordinary inventions that are being promised by all the future predictioned personnel .. and they must be wondering if they shall have sufficient brain to be able to comprehend the workings of such material ..
But I guess the way things progress, that by the time it is past the 75 barrier or the 80 or the 90 .. the brain shall have a substitute ‘beamer’, a robot of some qualification to be following and performing all the deeds that most humans do on their own ..
I have ‘beamer’ at home which I can operate .. tell it go to various parts of the house and speak to the walls or staff or family .. which I move by sliding my fingers on my ‘rectangle’, sitting in any part of the world .. provided of course there is internet connect .. that valid piece of essentiality in the times of today ..
The rulers of the world today are not the threatening armies armed with the latest and largest nuclear devices .. the rulers of today are those that control the sky and the land signals .. satellite from the air .. cabled wiring travelling on land and the depths of the oceans connecting the world .. ..
And may they be blessed .. for without them these punched letters would never have reached read or ever noticed .. ever ..
Yes indeed .. me putting the thoughts of the day for the DAY 3530 .. dressed in what may seem out from the recent esquire service, a nobleman in olden times waiting for Knighthood .. or in dire circumstances to be getting the dinner ready to serve at his Master’s table .. !! Liveried and waiting for the command !!
Good night .. and happy headphoning - the liberty to listen in to what the others may not be listening .. its a priority .. an exclusive release .. privacy confirmed .. and personal pleasure assured ..
There is a romance when what you hear is playing within your very skin !!
