This Independence Day, Let’s Have A Look At How India Has Evolved Technologically Since 1947

Technology has changed a lot. I can’t even think of picking up a landline now, because I swear I don’t even know the number anymore. It’s impossible to imagine a world without tech today, but hey, what’s commonplace today wasn’t so 50 years ago.

So this 70^th Independence Day, I bid adieu to the yesteryears and thank all the new swanky stuff for making our life so much better.

1. Finding your way

Before: Ask every tom, dick and harry for direction, who for fun will mislead you, thus, you end up roaming in circles around the same damn garden.

After: Google maps is bae.

 

2. Learning new stuff

Before: Look through the dictionary for the meaning of a new word, read endless encyclopedias to know cool facts that you can share with friends and look smart.

After: Your search engine is your Yoda.

 

3. Gaming

Before: Go to the chill in video arcades and become a wizz at Pacman, while your friends stare in jealousy.

After: Lying in bed making FIFA history by beating your own score.

 

4. Pranking people

Before: Looking for random numbers in Yellow Pages and asking them to sing jingles pretending to be from a radio station.

After: Make memes on them and post it all over social media, for all their employers to see!

 

5. Dating

Before: Buying movie tickets in black and holding pinkies while watching Shree 420

After: Swiping right to the guys available in your vicinity!

 

6. Professing your love for someone

Before: Writing extensive love letters explaining why you love them.

After: Writing on each others Facebook wall for the world to see.

 

7. Talking to relatives outside the country

Before: Talk to the operator for 5 hours, for a 5 minute conversation with your peeps abroad and lose all your damn savings in one call.

After: Get tired of seeing the whole family squeezing into one frame on Skype for every holiday!

 

8. Music collection

Before: You’d be untangling the reels of all your cassettes, failing miserably and giving up on music altogether.

After: Opening your iTunes library and clicking on a playlist for your current mood.

 

9. Searching for a job

Before: Going door to door, waiting for ages to meet the ‘right person’ who’d give you time enough for a meeting.

After: Joining every job portal and scheduling interviews all day, only to get a call back the next day!

 

10. Use of Public Transport .

Before: Jumping onto a hand pulled rickshaw, going only a little faster than a tortoise and never making it anywhere in time.

After: Whizzing away on your cute Bajaj Qute and reaching 10 minutes before time, because Quadricycles are awesome.

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