I wake up to the sound of my phone buzzing. I have a new notification. ‘Reminder: Alumni meet today.’
Damn, how could I have forgotten
the most important event of the year for every girl? A single platform to
flaunt your latest size zero figure, your expensive designer outfit, your
Gucci’s, your Prada’s, your Jimmy Choo’s and your recent promotion to corporate
Vice President. You want to be the envy of every other girl out there, who by
the way, is looking to do the same.
Even though I have a perfectly
stocked versatile wardrobe, nothing seems good enough for tonight. I quickly
instruct my laptop to switch on; of course it recognizes my voice very well. It
springs to life almost instantaneously.
In this age of electronic cash,
all your purchases are made by a single card with a single identity worldwide
and webwide. There is a single login ID for every site – your UIDAI number! So
eBay knows that you bought a Louis Vuitton from Singapore last month and
Flipkart knows that you bought a tee shirt from the store next door last
Saturday. More importantly, your purchases over the last decade are no secret!
So whenever you login, the stuff that you are most likely to pick is displayed
right on top based on your recent purchases from both brick & mortar and
online store, worldwide.
So I login to eBay and quickly
choose a few outfits. Now I need to decide what looks best on me before I leave
for work. How, you ask. With their Virtual trial experience J A 3D representation of
the outfit emanates from the screen and you can position yourself in front of
the laptop so it looks like you’re wearing the dress. I look at myself on the
webcam and I decide that the colour is too dull for me. I pick another outfit
and it looks wonderful.
I purchase it immediately, lest someone else picks it
up before I do. It will be delivered by evening. After work, I get dressed and
pick out matching accessories. I can’t wait to see everyone’s reaction at the
reunion.
I hear my phone buzzing again.
Wait, this time it’s the alarm. It’s 7 am and it’s only 2013! Guess I got confused between thirteen and thirty in my sleep… Right now, the only single
identity we have is to login to any site using our Facebook accounts! :D And sssh... no one knows that I splurged on that designer gown even though it was not on sale.. ;)
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