Succession, the mammoth-sized computers, requiring space in large rooms, shrank to first pocket-size and then to hand-held calculators. It didn’t long for the desk top computers to be used in storage of data (both figures and words), sending mails to any destination across the world in a matter of seconds, virtually reaching the target recipients instantly. Engineers took to computers in designing their complex machines with consummate ease. To make a long story short, digitisation of all written as well as spoken matter conquered the entire globe, India too taking top spot, a fact that doesn’t need to be elaborated. Digital technology’s products are now in the hands of millions causing electronics-derived-devices flooding across the world.
We are at present placed comfortably in the world of trade and commerce, totally dominated by electronics, to the extent that if anyone doesn’t understand e-commerce, e-banking, e-this, e-that, that person is dubbed as e-illiterate, to one’s own misery. The scenario of ‘e’ doesn’t end with possessing the ubiquitous smart phone, one has to be conversant with the newly emerging digital literacy.
