I packed my bags before sleeping. After being chilled by the Joker during the night followed by a refreshingly warm breakfast in the hostel mess—the last one for the few foreseeable weeks—I set off in a cab. As ideas to write bubbled up, I needed to download the Blogger app. The reason I'm temporarily moving and the reason my college is temporarily closed are ironically promotes by Play Store as Plague Inc.—the coronavirus.
Driving (well, I am not driving, but you get the point) past some flags, I wonder how and when we start attributing meaning far beyond the confines of the polygonal woven fabrics. The fabric dotting the mouths of the crowds also speak, though they're more like the voices inside your head. Is this person sick? Are their relatives sick? Does their excursion take them to tightly packed spaces like the public transport? Or have they been simply scared into using a mask? Thinking about this is futile.
I believe a large part of overthinking in the negative sense is actually just off-target routine critical thinking. Coffee might've had a role to play but "Not today!" I'd say as I just now realise I forgot to drink coffee. Damn. That was the only item in my school-time morning routine which had survived hostel life.
Digressing a bit from my travels, let's take this discussion to the internet. I've been reading an introductory guide to industry 4.0 named Future Tense which is about 250 pages big and has received recognition from several big names. Here, thinking of what to do right now with regards to that situation is a bit difficult since you need to think in terms of the present, the past and the future. The fourth industrial revolution—Industry 4.0 or I4—has already begun in the last decade. Presently, we see applications of I4 technologies unknowingly and thus often take things for granted. The textbooks don't really cover anything of this yet; as someone who did not choose computer science in junior college, I find it a bit hard to grasp concepts in programming. We are taught about the interactions of atoms and we predict how molecules behave, and I feel it is that knowledge of the very basics that is lacking. They did add a course on 'Information Communication Technology' about 6 years ago though.
In the so-to-say no-man's-land between two neighbouring cities, we still get good internet connectivity and proper roads, road signs and all. It certainly is good. Is it possible to do without some of these 'features'?—Absolutely. So, what we've got is good enough?—Seems so. I think these two answers to these questions sow the seed of complacency, as the asker often forgets the next two questions—Is this system competitive? What would be even better? In any case, complacency is not good. This is especially true when we are living during a multidimensional revolution—evolving technologies, evolving societies and evolving individual mindsets.
Coming back to the pandemic, I've taken to Twitter for news. I've also realised that I really use Twitter when I want to follow some news topic and certain artists—I'm basically what you would call a lurker. I don't tweet, comment or retweet. I was thinking of changing that. Just thinking. Would it be a good idea to post interesting excerpts from your daily life? Then again, there's the aspect of how much to reveal. I don't know how some people do it. I don't understand.
In that respect, I'd say the trend where I'm from is about 5 years behind the trend in the U.S. (as is discussed online). I'm talking about the generational stereotypes. For someone like me born just shy of the this millennium, I would classify myself as having a millenial mindset but having electronic tools which are half a generation behind. Due to globalisation, the latest generation here is turning out to be more Gen-Z like, but their parents will be boomer-like, rather than millenial-like. It would be fun to see how it unfolds. As many anime protagonists and antagonists alike have stated, humans are interesting and so are their ways and methods.
I'll end this post here. My travel is half done, and I feel continuing this post would make it discouragingly long. You'll see the next update in a few days if I write more today.
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