The era of drawing water from the depth of wells, digging earth to sow seeds for raising food crops, walking distances to reach destinations, lifting heavy articles for stacking, creating fire by lighting firewood, straining lungs, for cooking food, chopping trees by using axe involving physical labour as well as needing hours of work, constructing buildings by physically carrying raw materials to reach the rooftop, counting paper currency using fingers, however deftly, making implements used in agriculture by outmoded means, painting walls of buildings with brushes of small width and a host of actions as part of daily life, which were common sight until a few decades ago, have moved into pages of human history. Pursuit of happiness, particularly by avoiding drudgery, seeking comfort and other all-too-familar carnal pleasures relating to both bodily and mental appetites seem to have generated heat in daily life of people at present times and fire being doused by innovating ever novel means that can be described by one word, technology. Arrival of electricity first and digital technology stoked by electronics next have given wide and powerful wings to technology enabling human beings to fly into space, out-flying the eagles as it were. Where the human species is heading while riding on technology is well-nigh impossible to visualise.
The part of time space accounted for by human species revelling with products of technology propelled by electrical power is virtually an infinitesimal fraction of the time space traced to the emergence of the species, estimated at about 2,00,000 years. Humankind has drawn heavily from technology to raise the happiness and comfort levels raising some basic questions which deserve to be asked, if not answered.
