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Outsourcing's the word

Every activity that can be done by a substitute is almost always substituted.
Last Updated 02 December 2016, 18:11 IST

Everything we ever want is available to us just at a click of a button, well almost everything. The things that cannot be achieved directly by technology can be outsourced for a price tag.

So, we have people taking care of our daily chores. Then there are people answering attendance and writing examinations for students who want their services. We have stories of senior pourakarmikas who kindly allow their poorer cousins to do the job for them for a pittance. Doctors, lawyers, teachers, builders and other professionals off shoulder their responsibilities to their juniors in the name of teaching them the tricks of the trade.

Then, there are always those few people in every family who are specially identified to attend functions and events on others’ behalf. There are goons who can bump off the guy you don’t like. If you have not yet grasped the general drift of all this dribbling, let me spell it out for you. The mantra goes this way: Every activity that can be done by a substitute is almost always substituted.

That explains all the lifestyle diseases. Apparently, all of it stems from our couch-potato mode, preferably with a bag of potato chips by our side. If only we could squarely shift the blame on all those innovations and the underprivileged populace who have geared up to enslave us, make us obese and redundant and get them suitably punished for making us look silly slobs. When this kind of collective murmur became a clamour it was heard by the world of technology.

Lo and behold, they came up with an application called Pokemon Go. The tech savvy and the body watchers geared up to catch virtual monsters and burn those unwanted calories. Just around the time when the world thought things were falling into place, a news brief updated us about how lazy gamers can avail the services of a firm called Poke Walk. The ones who want to boast of a high score without sweating it out can hire the service of people who will walk their phone and catch creatures for a fee! Wonder what they will come up with next?

I am waiting for the day when the brilliant brains of this world will come up with a technology for satiating our senses or even breathing on our behalf. However, I will not be overly surprised if some enterprising lot gives us the option to outsource the function for a fee!

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(Published 02 December 2016, 18:11 IST)

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