‘I wanna be…. I wanna be… Everything
at Once’! Now who doesn’t. That’s clearly the demand of the times. I am
watching the advert crooning this – my mind declares it to be a slick show par
excellence. Microsoft clearly laid out the right trap for me in that Windows 8 ad...
snaring me in its sensory experience. The music, the visual, the lyrics… it is
creating the right kind of pull in me, pushing the consumer and techie in me to
‘covert’.
It is the Metro Tiles styling in the
upcoming Windows 8 that cast some kind of spell on my psyche. This was like an
acorn planted in my heart and mind, and bursting to grow out. This was like
that morning bus that I could just not miss. Even if un-showered. Because I am thoroughly
Metro-ed.
Inspite of Dell’s clear advise –
that bordered on defamation - that my laptop is not fit to be upgraded to
Windows 8, I am still wanting to be a Man. Strike my own journey. Advise be
damned!
The day arrived, Windows 8 arrived
too. Right on time, at the appointed hour. I am at the site – the dot com one. The
page proclaims ‘A Beautiful Start’ – I nod my head vigorously in agreement.
Click, click… like leaping across 4
steps in one go, I figured that the Rules of the game but ….. they are a
changing. From the days of handing down you software via floppies, to CDs, DVDs…well,
on the evolution curve, now it’s online. Behind the canary yellow page lies my passage
to nirvana - in the intangible shape of a 2 gb download. Now will that deter me
to get the newbie from Seattle? I am clearly a man possessed. I don’t doubt the
courage in me to download this monster size file, even against the headwinds of
download speeds that oozes bandwidth.
Material affections and afflictions
can sometimes propel you with that same intensity like a nitrogen tank lit
under the Shuttle Discovery. With a visionary foresight, days in advance I had
cleared all my schedule for this day. Night included! It was SOS, Emergency and
everything else declared at one go. Days of pain staking preparation (backing
up data, prepping the comp, going thru installation guides on net and what not)
finally culminated in the successful – though fairly longgg – download. Gold
has been struck in the form of 2 gb worth of executable code. And it is waiting
to be ‘Run’. I am all pumped up. Your favorite gig in town, and you already
have the admission ticket for the front row!
Run, baby run. That’s what I could
say and do. Click, click. I am seeing a variety of graphics in action on the
screen – it’s like an advancing ticker tape, giving me a blow by blow account
of Windows 8 progress of seeping deeper and deeper into my computer - in its
CPU, motherboard and all the innards. Mind is simultaneously also roiling with
all imagined disasters that can strike. But they turn out to be just that..
imagined.
Moment of joy has arrived. The final
re-boot of the system – the last of many anxiety driven ones – and then a
colorful page comes out. Heralding the new age. And I am on the right side of
it. Imagine - Ferrari delivered, and now you are dying to floor the pedal. Hear
its vrrrooom.
As the whizzing and dancing colorful
tiles unfold - it’s like my Tech nirvana moment. Next several hours are spent
in test driving. Click, tap, type, see, watch, feel immersed, derive joy, discover
the nooks and crannies, at times feel overwhelmed. Remember, Microsoft has
given a whole new role to the ‘Start’ button as well – a fresh start to Start. Learning
that small piece of big change itself is enough to overwhelm any average joe.
But when you are adrenalized, what not you can learn. Even in the dead of the
night!
Now its few days later since then. The
joy has ebbed… but it still keeps coming back in spurts as my Discovery continues.
The apps, the interface, and all various other inane things dazzle my sub-slept
eyes. I am drilling deeper and deeper into the app store, extracting all that I
can. I am perseverance personified. Mind is completely Metro-ed by the whizzing
tiles. My daily fix of energy shot came this time has come in a glass filled
with Metro.
I am clearly enjoying this journey
to be ‘Everything at Once’! Btw, are you adrenalized enough to be Everything at
Once?
PS: Any leap of technology-faith you
take under the dazzle of my thoughts is at your sole risk of cost and consequences.
I do not warrant you will get the same
experience or any experience at all. It is obviously a function of how evolved you
are!
Cheers,
Cheers,
mg
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