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Image Courtesy: Wikipedia Just came after a show of 'Surrogates' at the PVR in Ambience Mall, Gurgaon . Liked the movie. If we come to think of it, it does send shivers down the spine with all this technologized incentives that we keep giving ourselves day in and day out. My friend Nikki talked about our addiction to web and social networking with hardly anything 'social' left in it for it is behind the veil of cyber names, cyber games and I daresay cyber jobs. I, myself am looking forward to a career in Marketing/Branding/Retailing associated with Social Media and associated technologies. However, there needs to be a line that definitely needs to be drawn to keep it from becoming our madness. Surrogates takes it a step further - talks about building perfect 'us' as we would like the world to see us. So you sleep and rest in a cozy home all day - hooked into a system and a perfect you, who never gets old goes about doing your daily activities. You can cho...

With nothing better to do, I have been doing a lot of random surfing over the net. Registered recently on Twitter, My Space and have been reading about new things happening online. Advent of micro blogging and other stuff they are calling Internet 2.0 and 3.0 et al. It is simply mind boggling! Nascent technologies and their implications on the simplicity of human life are worth a second look. Controversial elections in Iran and twitter becomes a source of information when all other forms of media are blocked. Live discussions happening over a tornado and its course across the US. Information at your disposal - fast, recent and blazing hot! And where there is information, there is analysis and there is more analyzed information! My mind somehow wanders to that old shepherd in the hinterland, grazing his cattle. He has spent his entire life knowing nothing about all this and in all probability would die without knowing what twitter is. Is his world changing because of this barrage of tec...