This week's news :
1. Facebook buys Whatsapp for US $ 19 billion.
2. Google glass is now available for prescription wearers, along with a few etiquette tips.
3. The Mobile World Congress 2014 Barcelona has announced what is my next mobile phone.
There, you have it -my weekly headlines summary, which completely bypasses the world of humans, with its Modis, Paswans, and Lalus. We don't interact with or inhabit the same world as those people who want to now go and live in London since Amma is releasing them from life imprisonment in jails that they entered in 1991 or so, soon after having blown off the head of Indian politics at Sriperambadur ( where is it dear? Look up in Google Earth, lazy!)
Yes, that was the prehistoric year when there was no Internet, no mobile phone, and no PC.
What!? You mean there was a time on earth when there were humans, that is those who were not robots hobbling around clutching little shiny lighted screens!? Yes. A different time. A different world. A different species.
So human history can be written briefly as the progression of creatures in this sequence:
Worms
Dinosaurs
Humans
Viruses
Androids.
The last named is you and me, what the dictionary defines as an automaton in the form of a human being. Another name for android.
In the new language of the zombienet we all androids inhabit, there are surprising parallels to humans'.
Let me list six most powerful words of them:
Breathe = Facebook
Smile = Emoji
Walk or stroll or travel = Browse
Speak = Whatsapp
Unburden your soul = Post on your FB timeline.
Sleep or wake up = Come online or go offline.
In the Zombienet, man's propensity to happiness, sadness, war, disease and death have all equivalents. The Android can suffer or experience an extremely wide range of unpredictable mental states. As recently reported, these vulnerabilities are best exemplified by the issues caused by a bug in the IOS 6.1.1 due to possibilities of rogue access to your devices using the encryption vulnerabilities in SSL. A fix is coming shortly as 7.0.6. Such issues don't always hurt us folks in Zombienet of course. Some of us use KitKat, you see. Even Nokia X uses a stripped version of this OS.
But the worst news?!?!? We may have to go backwards in time and technology, into a world of the spoken language that humans used. That's because some of the folks who shared in the 19 billion loot have decided to offer voice telephony for free on Whatsapp. Yes. Speech.
