Recently read a book Longitudes and Attitudes authored by Thomas L Friedman..

Few good stuff made me smile and ponder for a while....



there was a panel discussion about 21st century corporations at Davos world economic forum

Some of the chilling statements, The key to winning in business is adapt or die,

get wired or get killed, work 24/7 from every where or left behind. At the end, Howard Stringer,

chairman of Sony, stood up and said: "doesn't any one here sounds like a vision of hell ? while

we are all competing or dying, where will there be time for sex or music or books ?

stop the world, I want to get off."



Sometimes I feel, Has the growing technology made life easier or the opposite. A man with cell phones,

PDA, pagers, beepers, players, hanging on his belt, looks more like a telephone repairman..

the number of gadgets is increasing every day, So is the the social stress attached with them..



A new phrase in the air, "device creep", machines don't serve us, we serve them and my identity

is now less important than the data that is stored about me. Have a nice day.



Jeffrey Garten, dean of Yale school, said: "May be its not time for us to adapt or die, but for

the technology to adapt or die...