Sim Generation

The generation gap is getting smaller, and smaller. Sanjay (Mob Me Co-Founder, and now a business associate/partner) made this dawn upon me recently in a conference (he loves climbing on the stage at every occasion - that's what his buddy Vivek told me when got talking to them) that the gap between you, and someone just 4 years younger to you is m-a-s-s-i-v-e - much more than what you thought it could be. 

For example, Abhinav, who writes for MeraSport these days, informed me that he finds thumbing an sms on a 1-2-3 keypad much easier than writing similar stuff on the laptop! For some reason, I never tried to find out what prediction-mode is, but these new fellows are born with that knowledge.

I would never have imagined that - in my past 5 lives - and no wonder, I was left silenced for 2 minutes! Not just because suddenly I felt much older than what I think I am (and, for once, I felt concerned about my greying hair), but because it means a lot for my work. 

(When people comment on my greying hair, "Haaww! Premature greying ...", I just retort, "Not Premature ... Precocious Greying!" - clever?)

We feel that the little screen of the mobile world can do only so much when compared to the larger laptop screen which is much more richer, but here's the truth: this new generation was born using the smaller screen, so it expects businsses to make products (games, animations, scoreboards, websites) to make the small-screen experience richer. Try ignoring the small-screen, and in the next 4 years you and your business will be a dodo. 

I love this song - and everytime I see this movie or hear this song, I wish for the following: I knew Italian, I had Roberto Benigni's charm, I could see an Opera. If I work really hard, I can get all three - but that's what I am - Brilliant, but Lazy. 

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