Side Effects Of Technology

A day in the life of Mr. Lucky Opportunity not every time knocks.

by akhil sharma

Side effects of technology 

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Just like the medicines we have side effects of technologies too. No technologies can be 100% compatible with the humans. This case study deals with the side effects of the technologies which we either neglect or overlook as we have no other options. 2

Case study:Mr. Lucky / Mr. Unlucky 

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He is almost unlucky so far as to get right things happening at the wrong time or perhaps the vice-versa. Background – Mr. Lucky is working for a software firm as a trainee engineer.

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Mr. Lucky is driving his bike amidst the busy traffic then suddenly jhalak dikhlaja(his ring tone)—his mobile rings. He stops his bike to attend the call just to find out that it is from the service provider about the new xciting offers. He then feels annoyed and start driving again then again jhalak dikhlaja---this time he doesn’t pick it up and it was from his prospective customer where he is going, who rings him to notify that he has to go out for urgent work. 4

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He then returned back to his office obviously with no results. He however buys a handsfree. While giving an important presentation infront of his boss again..jhalak dikhlaja… It was from a outstation number so he picked up just to find out that it was a wrong number. He then switches off his mobile and his father urgently needs to talk to him but finds his mobile switched off. 5

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After office he goes to meet his girlfriend at the mall. While he was trying to have a good time – jhalak dikhlaja.. His father again calls him up and scolded him for not calling him back as he has left message in his voice-mail. He comes to know of the fact that his mother is in hospital,so rush to hospital as soon as possible. 6

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Returning very late from the hospital he retires to his bed as he has only 3 hours left for rest. After two hours…jhalak dikhalaja. He picks up his phone only to find out that it was from his friend abroad who has called just “yunhi”. Now our Mr. Lucky realises that because of his luck or because of his mobile he is Mr. Unlucky. 7

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Every year how many people die on the road due to answering phone calls while driving. Why do we see signs like “please don’t drive while talking on your mobile ,traffic safety week,etc.” You are sleeping after a very very long work and suddenly your mobile rings up and found out that its just a normal call could be avoided. While busy in a important meeting if your mobile rings up. If you don’t pick up it goes in the voice mail and what if its really very urgent and the user wants to connect to you. How many peoples do really uses voice mails. Does the technology is really adding values to our life and making our lives easier but what about the side-effects as visible in case of Mr. Lucky. Does luck has to play a great role in utilising the technology fully. If not then what should Mr. Lucky do to get once again lucky.

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Solution-voicemail 

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Well the solution of the above problems lies and present already in voicemail. However technically voicemail is a single way communication between the caller and the mobile user. The caller can leave his message and get back sometimes after. Voicemail, a modified form of our answering machine used in fixed line telephone. In fixed line telephone only single way communication is enough. Mobiles should be as compatible with the user as the users is.

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Actual process :- There are two ways possible to do this. Process one includes the situation in which the user can sms to us (service provider) at a separate number. Now if the caller recieves a call from a mobile then that sms can be sent to the caller , whereas if the caller is doing from a fixed line then a prerecorded voice of our customer service executive will be played ,for eg.- Mr. X is driving right now call him after an hour. If your message is really urgent then call him again. Now this process happens twice and if the caller need urgent connection then the call is connected directly to the user and now the user will come to know that some urgent call is there. In this way two step filtering is observed between the user and the caller and hence the user has already separated the urgent calls from the unnecessary calls. In this process if the user want to activate his mobile before the stated time then again he can sms or call at the same number above. However if the user doesn’t activate his mobile then it will be activated automatically after the set time.

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Process two :- There will be preset time gap and the user can choose between them and get it activated. In among the different profile the user can choose the one he required and then activate it. And then same process took place as process one. Hence now the compatibility between the user and the mobile is largely increased. 11

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The software must be adding one extra feature like callmate and in this software there will be different status of the user already preset as well as compatible with the ability to make one. The predefined status will include a preset message like right now im driving call me after 2 hours and a prerecorded voice of user. The user gets a call from a mobile. Then the call mate will first intercept the call and sends the caller sms that right now the user is busy( as per set by the user) an call him after the time limit set by the user. However in this the time limit will vary according to the mobile clock. Suppose if one hour is already passed after the preset status then the caller will get sms notification as the user is busy call him after one hour. At the end of time the user will get a notification that his 2 hours is expired he can return to normal. However if he doesn’t attend the reminder then it will gets increased by 10 minutes and so the sms will be. 12

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The user gets a call from landline. Then the user with prerecorded voice in the memory as “ hi ,I m busy right now call me after 2 hours and right now the time is 3.00 pm at setting this status” And same as the expiry of 2 hours it will send a reminder and if he doesn’t attend then it will get increased by 10 minutes. If the user gets sms ( especially for normal user don’t having this software) then it will pass as without alarm or vibration with a little beep sound. In this if both the user have this call mate software downloaded then he can send via normal mode or urgent mode. In normal mode the user will be alerted by just one beep the incoming of sms. However if the user sends via urgent mode then the alert will be normal message tone which he has set it already. 13

Tip of an iceberg…

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Call anywhere to anyone in the world absolutely free. No loss of precious data when the mobile is lost. Gradually we will be progressing into the world where we will not be dependent on the service provider i.e. Airtel or Hutch. 15

Detailed process… 

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Software similar to Skype would be downloadable to mobiles easily. Then connecting to PC for internet and talking wherever. Finally mobile will be landing up as a PC for an user and this software will become the operating system for mobiles. 16

Thank You 

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