Now this was meant to be a provocative question, but then shot off the park by our Wizard with Words. Here’s Dr Bhaskar Das in the February 1 edition of Das ka Dum. Read on…
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Q. If you see a corporate leader reading a speech from a piece of paper as against an iPad, laptop or mobile phone would you judge her/him to be old-fashioned?
A. I personally abhor being judgmental about individual or situations on the basis of perfunctory evidence. So what? Are we interested in the content of the delivery (in this case) or with the optics? If someone is comfortable with gadgets, that’s fine, but I need not be correlated with unique content. A ChatGPT content can be delivered through an iPad for instance. But s/he may not be as original as Malcolm Gladwell, for instance. My example might be extreme but I hope you get the drift. Gadgets usage is convenient, fast and makes an individual look cool geek and in sync with time, but that doesn’t mean that an individual at the opposite end hails from the neolithic age.