Around the world in 80 minutes…

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Around the world in 80 minutes…

By binoy ⋅ March 10, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

I am forever a fan of technology and constantly impressed by the possibilities presented to us everyday by technology. I have been posting on LJ actively since the past one month. I know a few people from NCST who are members on LJ but there are quite a few others who comment on my posts and I read and comment on their posts. Yesterday I added aneeta_04 to my IM clients and soon enough I catch her online. Now technology enables us to chat across continents and oceans in real time. After a few lines, we exchange our telephone numbers. Once again technology helps to bridge the 9000 something miles. I call her on her cell phone from my cell phone while driving to Walmart to get some groceries. We hang up after a few minutes of talking. The conversation – idea of having communicated with somebody new made my day and it sure made her day (her post).

I cannot stop from wondering how easily all that happened and that too in such a short time. Technology no matter how bad some people use it for – there are always good uses of it and connecting people is surely one of the best uses.

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10 Responses to “Around the world in 80 minutes…”

Thanks for the call and time !

It was nice talking to you and knowing you !

Posted by aneeta_04 | March 10, 2005, 11:47 pm
BTW, what is this 88 minutes calculation ?

Posted by aneeta_04 | March 11, 2005, 12:49 am
What is the 88 minutes? Time diff b/w India and US (where you are)?

Posted by weltanschauungs | March 11, 2005, 3:44 am
I guess he was using that based on a book titled “Around the world in 88 days ” !!

Posted by aneeta_04 | March 11, 2005, 3:50 am
Yeah, I got that . Just wondering why 88?

Posted by weltanschauungs | March 11, 2005, 3:51 am
Well, even I am not sure why he used 88 here ? may be he just meant things are faster these days with technology, its no longer days, only minutes !

Posted by aneeta_04 | March 11, 2005, 4:02 am
You are very welcome. The pleasure was all mine.

Posted by iamneo | March 11, 2005, 11:20 am
My intention was to play on the title of the famous book – ‘Around the world in 80 days’ and which mistook as 88. So I have corrected the title.

Continuing further…
#1) Time difference b/w India and US is about 690 minutes. India is ahead of US in time

#2) The title was abut the book by Jules Verne – Around the world in 80 days! I thought it was every appropriate because from the start of chat to actual hanging up of the phone call must have happened in about 80 minutes. So around the world and back in 80 days.

#3) Technology makes things that happen in days to happen in minutes.

Posted by iamneo | March 11, 2005, 11:29 am
Hmmm.. Did you see the movie, with Pierce Brosnan (forgive the spelling if wrong) acting? I liked that version of around the world in 80 days.

Posted by weltanschauungs | March 13, 2005, 11:48 pm
Dai Mallu, How are you da

Posted by anonymous | March 27, 2005, 6:23 pm

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