A key is meant to open up door locks. And without it, one may not be able to enter into any locked building. However, the same is true about our day to day life. There are things that we can't open simply because we can't access them - we don't have the "key".
Through my life time, at least I have lived short or long enough to witness some of the basic innovations to simplify human life. And all started from the development of the machine I am seated behind, facing it trying to operate it. A computer. It is a computer.
You may start to wonder whether or not I have gone astray in reference to today's title. But I am certainly still on the right track. I refer to the computer as the key to everything because one hardly moves a few yards in the city and finds not a computer being used as the main operator of all machines in any single or more firms. There withal, it is also found in homes and here, there and every where!
So, in many things a computer does, I chose to talk about the internet. And I am talking about what I do with it. A few years ago, i joined st. Denis school and it was the first time I touch a computer without close supervision. Then I saw the internet the great things it does. Now that it became known to me, a teacher of mine has taught me one great thing the world has ever done. He taught me internet mapping and this is what I came to talk about. It is something that every one can make to help every one in need of specific locations of places. One goes any where of one's interest and he sketches out the map. He then fills the information in the internet such that any one who needs to find that place can easily locate it. It fun! Trust me!
we began in a smaller number than we are right now. We started up this way of digital mapping - adding information of the little known places of the isolated slums etc.
Why do I call this practice a key to everything?
It is a key because one is opened for a place that he may probably have failed to reach because of its unknowns. And now one can reach that place and does any thing of his interest in such a place. Isn't that then a key to everything? Of course yes.
Next time I intend to write about more things about this mapping. you too may join us to draw the entire universe into one public map.
No comments:
Post a Comment