The bare necessities of life in this era now definitely includes power supply and connectivity. While I am more or less used to the idea that I cannot expect 24 hours power supply from the national privatised electric grid, I have learnt to lean on the telcos to deliver round-the-clock connectivity.
This is why it is disgusting that for the past 24 hours, there has been no signal on my mobile phone. Cutting me off from phone calls, SMS and the internet.
This got me thinking a lot about the modern life and how much we are depending on these infrastructures for our day-to-day business and the fact that they could just go off tomorrow morning – without much notice.
We need to develop more efficient systems for power and connectivity, Facebook is doing a great job with their Internet.org project and their connectivity lab, and I am sure a lot more will still emerge from them. We too should not be left behind.
There is a role we can play, everybody needs power and connectivity as much as they need food and water. It should also be a basic human right.
Power and connectivity are definitely bare necessities of life, more people should be looking at building a business startup in either of these industries.
