In electron we trust

Whenever I write an email or an essay, I am amazed at the marvel of the computer. What a comfort it provides! Does anybody write in any other way - pen to paper or typewrite? No way, we are wedded to the key board, screen and mouse. If I write an extra alphabet or a word, all I have to do is to click the “backspace” which swallows, letter by letter all extras. If I delete an extra letter, I can always use “undo” button to bring it back. Deleting the entire para has never been so easy. Just press of a button, it simply vanishes into, nobody knows where. I wonder where these deleted paras or words go in my computer. Will each para be stripped as words and then as letters before being sliced and consigned to ignominious retreat? If sliced how each letter is done – vertically and laterally like I slice an onion into pieces. Then I can never get cut onion back however, I confess, but computer can bring back!

When offices were still paper-stuffed (unlike todays paperless regime), I had issued stern warning to the staff not to clear my wastebasket. For, at least once during the day I dip my hand into it to pull out some dubious paper, which I threw inadvertently or thought of waste at that time which later became vitally important. Is there any mysterious hand that pulls out in computer all that deleted stuff, in case I need them back?

If electrons, the tiny weeny particles run computers, will they act like a drama band performing various symbols or letter formations on the screen at the command from the keyboard? Do some of them wait for their turn behind side screen? Coming back to my delete question, will they dump themselves in a keg waiting to reincarnate in original in case the knucklehead at the key board changes his mind? Or, do they soak into an invisible duster like the one used in a high school classroom and when dabbed, powder of electrons would fall back to life?

Are they not accountable to some bigger entity sitting at the centre, like Proton or unbiased Neutron? Otherwise, how do they carry out such important assignments – starting from weather forecast to landing on Mars? There must be a roll call for them to march on when I switch on the computer. They may not yell “Yes Sir or Yes Madam” before stepping out but all of them should get back when I switch off the computer to “Electronic Stores”. That is fair. Otherwise, whose business is inventory control?

Is inventory not important? How does it bring back a saved document as same “cast” every time I recall it if inventory of electrons is not reckoned correctly. I get unnerved when I think of integrity to inventory, more so during financial transactions.

If my pension is deposited in my bank account, it is solely due to the grace of some electrons. A group of them will shift their sides and appear on my side. And when I transfer money to another account, part of them will go away from my side, Is it? Hope they don’t lose loyalty in between!

With biometric systems in place, it is electrons that prove whether it is somebody or me. So much at stake and our lives depend on them. “In electron we trust” should be our new patriotic epigram.

If there is any electron-religion, I am converted into and fanatic about it, for my safety and security. Will you join me?