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Nice article on our obsession with technology (City Lights, December 5). But I thought C.K. Meena was unnecessarily critical about ATMs and online banking. Agreed, credit card fraud is a problem we’ve created for ourselves in the long run, but
if we were to restrict progress because it gives rise to more complicated problems we’d rather not make any progress at all.
There are certain areas technology has helped in making life easier. Not so with Facebook / Orkut.
I think the columnist was justified in every claim she made about them.
We live like automatons with fake names. Everyone looks as good as their smileys online and even criminals can look good in photographs!
Andronicus S. Raja Sukumar (by email)
BUS TIMINGS
This is a suggestion to include BMTC bus numbers and timings in MetroPlus with the train and airline information.
Many Bangaloreans do not travel by BMTC either because they do not know that it has excellent connectivity or because they cannot read boards.
This will be a practical way to motivate people to use public transport and reduce traffic congestion.
Simy Joy,
(by email)
PLASTIC FOREVER
Nandini Sundar’s article Pave it with plastic (December 6) was very good. Avoiding plastic is very difficult in the city. Practically the first thing we see in the morning is the plastic packet of milk..
One day I decided that until I found a way to dispose plastic wastes without polluting the environment, I would collect all plastic in a bag.
The bag is now filled to overflowing. I searched the net for ways to handle plastic waste and found that someone in Nagpur was producing petrol from plastics.
However, sending plastic wastes from here to Nagpur is not that easy. I hope soon all cities in India will have one plastic petrol bunk.
Siva
(by email)]
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