The Idiot box vs. Smart phone

A decade ago, television was our second screen because it was the only one we took to after the movie screen.When I grew up, we had one TV with a few channels. Life was simple, compared to the struggles we have to endure with today's new gadgets that are bundled with complicated features.

In fact, as I watch my own children handle today's technology with such efficiency, I feel so inefficient. And if that isn't enough, you have to keep updating them constantly. I have become a source of entertainment for them every time an update is announced.

They love to see my quizzical look and irritated stance every time I have to hand over my phone for it to be updated. They never seem to struggle with all the new technology that is being launched every day. They take to technology as fish to water.

Struggling with a TV that came with a hundred channels and a plethora of features was bad enough , now smart phones are even more complicated.

Sharing and communicating with friends has its own number to tell. Earlier, the family got together to watch a cricket match as a form of entertainment, passing more comments than the cricket commentary that was on the screen. We sat glued to TV screens together and in spite of its one way communication, it was a family activity.

But that number is slowly declining.

It’s not that we’re turning off - we are rather shifting our attention to new technologies and devices that make it easier to watch content whenever and wherever we choose.

Of course the smart phones are way ahead in terms of technology and customized content. TV doesn't figure anywhere in comparison. It’s smartphones that are rapidly changing the way we work and play.

More than half of these technology users sleep next to their phone and say it’s the first thing they reach out to in the morning and the last thing at night.

So, where does it leave our TV remotes?

In the hands of those who have not yet embraced the new technologies and prefer to stay in a world they grew up in.

No problem in that I suppose. After all, to each his own.

As for the rest of us, prepare to say - Goodbye TV, Hello Smart phones!

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