YEARNINGS OF A NEW AGE

There exist several man-made wonders that leave us spellbound. The telephone is surely one among them, though we take it for granted totally. Here of course we are not comparing man’s creative capabilities with that of God. It’s just that none ever thought such a thing would even be possible.

Try reducing the level of abstraction we generally use with regard to the telephone. We are actually able to listen to the true voice of a person a trillion miles away. To this day, it brings smiles to our lips and tears to our eyes to actually feel the true emotions of our loved ones though we do not have the boon to be close to them physically.

The array of enhanced variations of Graham Bell’s telephone is quite indispensable today. But I’m convinced man will not stop here. Now that he has gotten used to listening to voices from the other side of the globe, speaking to them, exchanging ideas with them, seeing their images and even observing their movements, he would definitely wish TO FEEL them.

Man will find a way to overcome this yearning one day. It will be hard to come by though. Without much-needed magic, we cannot afford to disapparate at one end and apparate at the other end instantly. It would work more like the telephone itself. We would probably trap the information contained in a person as a whole, convert it into transportable form and reconvert it back again. Well, I guess we can count on our competent inventors to find a smooth way out