Manas Garg Speaks

Around 1.5 years back, I wrote this post titled Another Addict where I described how I enjoyed being online. I was in IIT Kanpur, and the connectivity there was much better than in NIT Trichy.

Long back, when all I had was a dial-up at home, internet access was quite expensive (See here). Being online meant doing nothing but looking for information you needed and disconnecting as soon as possible. I used to think that in the US, computers are always on, and always online - It must be so wonderful to just minimize Internet Explorer and continue with other things!

Well, now I’m out of college. I have corporate internet in office, broadband at home and EGPRS on my phone. I do not shut down my office computers - ever - ‘coz that way I can access them from whereever I am, whenever I want to. Always on, always online.

Basically, it has come to a stage where the only time I’m not online is when I’m sleeping. I’m obviously online when I’m in office, I’m online at home and I’m online while on the move.

Do I need to sleep more?