Writing about Life in the digital age

Andrew has hit the nail bang on! Technology and its attendant effects have indeed reduced our efficiency in a big way. Instead of making us more relaxed, technology has transformed us into obsessed individuals with an obsessive-compulsive need to check e-mails every now and then. Then comes that nifty little gadget, the smart phone-well organisations now promote the use of whats app as a means to connect to employees 24X7! Then we come to social networking sites, well, one has to open up facebook every now and then to check updates. Organisations have started encouraging the use of Facebook to promote themselves. The seven deadly sins according to Andrew include all of these, e-mails, social networking sites, poor body posture, (what with those fancy chairs that are harsh on the spine) lack of physical exercise, and so on.

Dead space is a silent but deadly killer of initiative and success in business and life. Umberto Eco the expert on semiotics referred to Dead Space when he used the word Interstices. The idea is to fill up the empty spaces in our lives by doing something constructive. Take for example the time it takes for your friend to ascend to your flat using the elevator while you wait for him at the top. That is an interstice that you can fill up by writing something. If we were to remove the empty space from the whole universe, then theortically at least, the whole universe can be compressed to the size of an orange!