Living in the planet of the apps
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New Year resolutions are meant to be broken; that’s precisely the reason they are made in the first place, with ditto marks faithfully added at the beginning of every year. No longer, it seems, if you go by the news that there are apps to keep tabs on your resolve. These apps will push and prod you successfully through your resolutions to the bitter end, leaving you a nervous wreck. But not to worry, other apps are waiting around the cyber corner to put the pieces together and make a new, improved you.
Welcome to Earth, the ‘Planet of the Apps’ – a delightful coinage by a young friend, Adithya, who was tickled when ‘Apes’ was mispronounced ‘Apps’ and then realised he had stumbled upon an apt, need-of- the-hour phrase. Now Big Brother is not just watching; he’s listening, smelling, advising, monitoring and pronouncing verdicts on every little that people do. The American Dialect Society showed great clairvoyance when in 2010 it chose ‘App’ as its Word (or shall we call it ‘Appellative’?) of the Year. Since then the digital stage has been keeping time to the tune of ‘here an app, there an app, everywhere an app app..