Up, Down, Sideways, Don't Care as Long as it Loads.........

There might not be survey proving this theory, but I guess the most common verbs in the recent centuries would have been 'work' and 'love'. The former is a result of the Industrial Revolution, the latter Karan Johar's bidding. We also breath, eat, brush, drive and do a host of other things, but those two words somehow sum up two distinct ages of man. Now another word has entered our language that says more about our current status than any other; 'download'. Its a strange word, after all when ever has loading suggested a direction. But logic was never a strong point of wordsmiths.

So now you can download your daily newspaper, information on you favorite movie star, prices of stuff you want to buy, and practically everything else. For years mobile phone manufacturers have wondered how to turn dead time into their profit, and now they have an answer. You download games when you have nothing else to do. Traveling on a train, what better way than a game to discourage neighbors from getting too friendly? When phones begin to multi-task, we need to do the opposite.('Anti-task'?) The word hasn't been invented yet but remember, you read it first here. 

Soon we will have phones which activate another phone to download games. All those centuries ago, Archimedes boasted ' Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the earth.' Today he will ask for a mobile and a clear line, and he will download anything. "Don't speak to your friend, download him," manufacturers will say, and for the price of a local call you can shake hands with the person you are calling. Of course, if you get a wrong number or download someone who is having a bath there will be trouble, but someone will discover a way to upload these mistakes soon enough.