WONDERING AT TECHNOLOGY................
Sitting in the IT lecture is not really my idea of an interesting lecture... but dont have a choice i guess. Well, yesterday was one of our last IT lectures, and as the prof showed us all kinds of parts of the CPU... I began to wonder...
(For all engineers and comp savvy guys... try and be a lay man and put forth your abstract mind when you read this ahead...)
I wonder at the technology of the PC. Maybe you wud say nothing rocket science about it - now that we consider it so small and insignificant and look for better things. But this little thing that I see amazes me beyond expression. Come to think of it, these little chips and small "dot" like structures manage all kind of our work on the computer. Processing info digitally, passing it onto from one PC to another.
Can u imagine... all this that I write here is actually stored in the form of 0s and1s.... I have tied to imagine these as LITTLE PEOPLE who live inside my PC and do my work. These little creatures inside, perhaps out of a fairy tale are guys wiht tiny hands and feet and little squeaky voices. They pass commands to each other as and when I demand things from them.
When we analyse we write, add, subtract, multiply, calculate etc etc.. and when the PC analuses, it just does it - like the snap of the hand. Have you ever tried to imagine how the data would "LOOK" like in the system... in the sense - whether it would have any shape and kind of pysical existence?? And try and imagine it has one. Then how would it be???
Try and visulaise how a processing inside would look like. I guess it should some fun!!
2 comments:
well..... never thought on those lines ...... but once i did i wandered a little bit more and started thinking that more than the computers and the gadgets, how uncredibly functional the human body is......
it has the biggest power of self healing.
it has the power of correcting the mistakes done by us(unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, total abuse)......
the human body has an inbuilt antivirus which immunizes against any goddamn virus!!!!
it indicates through symptoms such as cold and fever the existence of other major diseases.
it has the capability to store more information than any computer....
it has the capabiltiy of regeneration without intimation.
(clots on wounds and bruises)
it is like a car, which when it breaks down can be repaired with the engine( the heart) still running.
(car fanatics would swear you cant do that with an actual car)
it has the capacity of running withut fuel for days together.......
it has the capacity of converting solar energy into chemical energy and then kinetic eneergy for free( there is a man in amdabad who draws energy from the sunlight and kives on that , he hasnt eaten food for at least the last 10 years)
and above all the capacity to make all the wonderful gadgets you talked about.................
Baaaaap re..
you went deeeep into space with that post.
But it was nice and entertaining at the same time..
PS - Dint know you blogged!
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