This is the "lost" world ....

I read an article on CNN "The Top 10 tech trends on 2011", being a technology enthusiast and an Engineer by profession and education I clicked on the article with great expectations. I was hoping to read about SSDs going cheaper, phones with dual core application processor, Boeing Dreamliner, better 3D display screens and so on. Instead all I found was Facebook, mashable and every other name that the world knows in context of Social Networking. Puritans will point out that expecting technology related posts on CNN was blasphemy in the first place and to a certain extent I agree but nevertheless there is no way to justify such a disaster.

It is such a shame that journalists at such big NEWS agencies do not even understand the meaning of the word they are writing an article about. Let me scream out loud technology is not just about Social Networking and neither is Social networking going to be the only big thing in 2011, in fact Social Networking is about 80% Social, 19% money and 1% technology. Anybody who thinks Mark Zuckerberg or however you spell his name is a technology sensation then you are mistaken, he is just a guy with the right idea and execution at the right time just like the smart dude(s) who invented the Housing bubble scam and made a lot of money for themselves and their companies. Facebook or twitter are barely any examples of excellence of technology, yes a lot of technology goes into maintaining their servers but that is not what they are selling, so please everybody who relates Social Networking to technology get your concepts right. In my opinion Social Networking is no better than porn and just a big waste of internet bandwidth, electricity and of course time.

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