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Dhaka Day by Day

The Electronic Era

by Parveen Anam
It I* when the four yew old walks Into the riwmorn and asks his teacher where he can plug tn hte electric eraser that you begin to ait Xand wonder Wonder what happened to the alate and chalk or the plain old hand era* oh rubbing •'ft) with a little tongue tocking That four-year old will probably ahrug hla shoulders. and inform you. he has no clue, what you are talking about. That la when the child abuse IvfHi comes tn. But you prefer to ata) out of the Ima light, so gritting your teeth, you Just walk away. Muttertixt to yourself. of course
The era of the electronic* la here, and here to stay. no two way about It It la Juel that some old fo^es will aUll stick up for the good old human qualities Of course you could nnrr do
without the com puter. we candidly admit, but it la , when the computer la In a mad race, to overtake It* creator, that you begin to wonder. where it all went wrong. Human labour la cheap, but tn the ultimate analysts, hammering It all out on the Computers. with as many print outs as you like is cheap er So exit the little typist, at the street corner. And enter the comput er cm.
When you actu-
ally sit back and wonder how many little men have been hounded out of their livelihood, by the wonderful electronic gadgets the great In dustrial Revolution seems no more than saintly Even around the house, the maids livelihood Is threatened by the washing machines, dryers, vacuum cleaners, you name it.
The human touch is fast going out and our concept of the future with humans with big thumbs and even bigger heads will probably materialise sooner than we think Hie human of the future will probably haw spindly legs because hr will not use them very often and the big thumbs will be a result of all the button pressing, on those gadgets
City life Is already fast changing, with the electronica coming in faster than expected And yet. there are some, who desperately a cling onto the old and refuse to be Impressed the creation* of the modern These are the diehard* Oh. we admit the PC is probably the greatest Invention since sliced bread but one man's poison Is another man's meat, and it 1* these new tangled Inventions which will be the death of the old devices.
Somehow, the idea of that child reciting his tables at the top of hi* lung* Is infinitely more comforting than Jabbing away at the calculator
because he could not be bothered to learn the tables Surely we mutter there can be no alternative to the hu man brain — or the human touch, for that matter
Electronics is all very well, but at the end of the day. we cannot do with out the basics of human qualities, and what better way to begin your day than a warm smile from a human. rather than a robot?
The day Is not far off. though, we fear, when It will
be our unfortunate lot. to put up with shiny ma chines and buttons. And nowhere Is It more aptly demonstrated than at the airline counter, when the computer Is down' (horrors) and the interminable line is checked in manually, much to the horror of the check tn clerk.
This was not included in his Job specific* Uons. He knows how Io deal with buttons, not humans clammering for his attention all at the same lime. So much for the buttons and the shiny knobs.