The smarter race or the smart devices

In today's fast moving world one thing we all find as a must have is a smart device. A smart device which will fulfill all our requirements. A one stop quick fix arrangement. But do we realise one thing that we have lost much more than gain any at all.
Be it office school home or any place. What seems to be a must is a smart device. Smart phones for work. Smart devices in the kitchen. Smart cars smart watches and what not. We are rapidlly moving towards a time when machines will be doing all our work for us.
But heyy do we even realise that all this smart devices have we as human beings become more smart or become overtly dependent creatures. How many of us remember birthdays, our appointments or for that even the contact numbers of our parents and near and dear ones. The argumemt here will be do we need to when we have these smart phones. Set reminders and it will tell us. Save the details and access them whenever needed. But heyy what if you get stuck in the middle of nowhere with a dead smart phone. Yes there is a phone booth near by or a society nearby where you can ask for someone's help. But then whoa do we remember the contact details . No we dont then whom will we call. No gps works on a dead  cell phone to guide you to safety.
When it comes to healthy lives the first thing we will say is hit the gym. We wont want to get up early in the morning and go for a jog. People I will tell you from personal experince its much much better to go for a morning jog than hitting the gym. It keeps you fresh due to the fresh air of the morning whole day. Its a hell lot better than working in an air conditioned gym.(no offences meant here to people who wish for that cuttish body. For that gym is needed)
Today we are moving towards smart homes. Place where everything is automated. From switching the fan on to cooking to everything. What we want is everything's under the control of our fingers. We do not want to move even an inch.
Ask any student today a complex question or ask a software engineer to build a comolex code. Even if they are on the move you will get the work done. How is that possible Smart Devices. But ask these very people after taking their fancy laptops and caluculators away. Answer guys????
Before writing this blog I tried this with myself also. I decided to put my smartphone away for sometime. I took my old nokia out to see how am I able to manage. And guess what the result was. I was back to my smart phone in almost 2 weeks. Life had become terrible. I would be late for meetings as my I did not have my smart phone to give me a reminder 15 mins before. I missed wishing people on their birthdays. For there was no facebook to remind of it. Even at my place my room mates complained. What the hell is this yaar you are not on watsapp and we have to call for everything. Suddenly things seemed ti have come to a halt. Lesson learnt I was back to square one.
But in all this above do we ever realise the bigger picture. The bigger point that instead of us getting more smart its our devices that are getting better only. We can't remember contact details. We dont want to do even the smallest of physical activities. Have we not kind of become slaves of technology rather than we ourselves becoming more smart. All the time we put forth this argument that we are better that the past generation. But is it we who are better or is it that we have been blesses with better technology and we have started to become less smart ourselves. Just think guys.....

Signing offf
Ripu Ranjan