It was a hot day. The sun was emitting flames of heat. I was playing football. I was excited to play with my new shoes but on other hand I was totally exhausted to play any more. I went inside the home. The drops (actually streams) of sweat were rolling on my body. I immediately switched on the fan, and in no time I was at ease. My fatigue just disappeared and again I felt energetic. The thing that was responsible for my comfort was our fan. I have a habit of thinking of a bad consequence of anything I come across. The same happened then. What would I have been doing now without a fan? I would have been dying.
This (so called) simple looking machine, fan, is also a child of that gigantic and ever increasing giant called by its founders and followers as ‘science’. Science has been with man since times unknown. But at that time man was not sharp enough to call his intellect as ‘science’. It was only in the time of independent researchers and inventors that it came to be called so. The journey started with a spark of fire; then wheel; then a cart; a bullock cart………….! The invention of wheel was the turning point. The journey of man’s success, progress which started with a spark of fire, still has found no brakes. It is moving at exceptionally high speed. The World makes trillions of trillions of rupees everyday with the technology he possesses.
Today technology has reached that heights of success which are not even in our mythology. (a great example of power of human imagination) Technology is today beyond the reach of common man’s imagination. We have everything to fulfill our and even others’ needs. Man has reached miles up in the sky and the same under land. He has been utilizing each and every known(today nearly everything is known) particle on and in the earth. Even the so called trivial things have found applications in man’s life.
The fear that man had in past was of he becoming slave forever but the fear of today is of men becoming robots. The computer technology has completely revolutionized man’s life. It has widened man’s horizons. The things which were,in the past,only the things for sake of dreaming can be done in seconds. We can see and talk to the people thousands of miles away from us. Some extremely modern technologies even can control and operate human minds. With the astonishing progress in medical science man can live a lot longer than expected. He can look young even in his 40s.
Such is the expanse of human intellect. There is no match for it; not even god.(which actually doesn’t exist) Man has crossed all the limits of time and space. Though some pessimists fear of man’s end it won’t materialize. Man has such a power(his intellect) that can even bail him out of hell!
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