How Technology Has Shaped Our Lives

It seems like only yesterday that only afew people in the neighborhood had theprivilege of owning a landline phone. To-day, mobile phones are commodity items,and everyone in the family has one and pro-fessionals use them for productivity on themove. PCs used to cost lacs of rupees, andwere therefore affordable to only a few largeenterprises. Today, we're talking about enter-ing the post-PC era, with the onslaught of somany mobile devices. It wasn't long ago thatInternet browsing was done from a black andwhite command line interface by geeks, andtoday, everybody and their cousins are onFacebook, Twitter, etc, creating a huge marketworth tapping.

Not long ago, two wheelers were bookedwell in advance, and delivered several yearslater if you were lucky. Today, you can get a 3Dview of a vehicle online, compare multiplebrands, and simply walk upto any showroomto pick up what you like. The same goes forany product or service.

Technology has improved production cy-cles, reduced cost, and enhanced customerexperience, all without compromising onquality. It has indeed brought a sea of changeto our lives. So much so that it's difficult toimagine how we ever managed without it!

PCQuest has played a catalyst's role in en-abling professionals, organizations, and con-sumers alike in understanding how toleverage ICT better. We would like to thank allour readers in supporting us throughout thisjourney and making it so successful.

Come 2012, and PCQuest will enter the25th year of its existence, so the celebrationsof this phenomenal journey will start fromJan 2012 and continue throughout next year.

To kick start the celebrations, we'll becoming out with a special silver anniversaryissue in January. Unlike regular issues, thisone would be a collector's edition, that willfocus purely on highlighting how Informa-tion and Communication Technologies havehelped shape our lives. Unlike regular issues,this one would be bigger, thicker, and besomething to keep on your bookshelf foryears to come.

We hope you'll enjoy reading the issue asmuch as we're enjoying creating it.