If you are single, it doesn't mean you are as young as you once were. I have to admit that I often force myself into younger crowd, just to be able to draw energy from their spirits. Honestly there is not much gap, only if I leave behind the wisdom of my older folks.
Here is the excerpts of a brief conversation with an Engineering student from Karachi.
"How is love life?" I asked, since I heard engineering students have usually dry campus life.
"I am flirting with something" he replied in wit.
"some'body', right?" I smiled to cover my invasive curiosity.
"Nobody! Its an 'idea'", he sparked firmly.
Before allowing me a pause for even a gesture he continued
"You understand science behind photo cameras?"
"hmmmm" I honestly intended to signal my discouragement for any further discussion on photography. Talk to me lakes, mountains, birds and butterflies said my inner voice but instead I snapped a quick one right from my heart to him, "you go to parks?"
Perhaps it was due to a recent television episode which is currently enjoying word of mouth of youngsters, which influenced my line to get this young man into grove.
He understood my intentions.
His face blushed, as he wearing a pure and genuine smile, covered in a natural blanket of shyness stressed to me again...
... "so i am flirting with this electronic and digital technology behind lenses of modern cameras".
Reading face is a myth, since mine said "Bite me!".
His subtle tone had more conviction than excitement this time, as he said;
"Did you notice the automatic face detection feature of new cameras?"
A totally new dimension of a young engineering student's romance had unveiled itself.
I could instantly recall one such boxes appearing on my camera screen, though I have turned the feature off, lately.
But my friend's latest camera shows as many number of boxes, as there are faces in a snapshot.
I remember saying "wow" as I kept sinking into the deep pit of this techno-fascination.
Visualizing my university instructor from Digital Computer Logic course, I fancied the programming code that must have been written, in order to perform this function.
Right at the moment, when live video feed is being played on the Camera's LCD screen, a fascinating programming code in computer language enables an electronic camera to also behave as a facial sensor.
With complete grasp of this technological invention, and having not paused earlier to completely admire it, I was compelled to wear a natural facial expression of 'wonder' and 'amazement'.
By now the myth of face reading, was also busted :)
I could only say "Fascinating" since I truly was.
He sucked me in completely by asking, "when a digital camera lens can be programmed to detect a face, would it be any harder to detect a flying object, lets say an unmanned flying predator or drone planes?".
"Its both simple and cheap" he nailed it.
"Its both simple and cheap" he nailed it.
Now my disfigured eyebrows did all the talking, as I rubbed my hands and bent close to quench the thirst of my creative curiosity, while he fell his back straight and said...
"Such a small chip and lens can guide any missile automatically to target those, Flying our Space, Killing Our people!"
2 comments:
Hey thanks for the Post, It was nice to finally read a well written Post that actually makes sense. I will be back soon to read some more. Good work
Contect: Sana Ahamed
hah technology, how do we see ourselves? when we look ourselves in the mirror do we actually think we see what we look like or perhaps an image that our mind creates, If it is indeed our own reflection then why is our right hand left in the mirror? the whole theory behind such mirrors and cameras is that it creates an illusion in our minds fading off our ability to think and look critically. Do you think its a wacky world? Think about it the next time you stand in front of the mirror !
p.s- your friend looks like a "genius" to me, hehe.
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