The future of IT..

The year was 2123. There have been lots of changes in India. C has been declared national alphabet, Cut, copy, paste(not in that order) as national words, Computer as the national gadget, coffee is the national drink, sandwich is staple food followed by pizza, Obesity is the national disease, and Age of empires is now the national game. Java is now recognized as the official language.

Yeah! Java is now recognized as an official language, after the 2067 linguistic based communal riots where SEs belonging to different languages fought with each other. The riots have caused serious damages to IT industry as there were thousands and thousands of monitors broken and even more keyboards hit against the heads, and apart from the property losses, the IT industry had to pump in lots of money as the hospital charges of an employee are covered by the company. The situation didn’t cool down unless the IT minister intervened and promised to declare Java as national language and also promised a new state called Soft Pradesh.

Soft Pradesh has got 2000 year tax holiday, petrol here is completely subsidized and is charged at a petty 50paise per liter. Autowallas are not allowed to charge more than 2 rs irrespective of the distances traveled. Whole of Soft Pradesh is Wi-Fi enabled and communication does not cost you a penny as it is over IP. Power is free. So virtually Soft Pradesh is the Indian improvised version of US.

All was going well in SP (Soft Pradesh) until a disaster struck. What is the disaster? Well the answer to the question is the story of Softesh. (Softesh is the most common name in SP. There are around 100 Softeshs per Sqkm )

Softesh is born to two IT professionals, whose parents and their parents incidentally were IT professionals too; Infact, his whole family for last 7 generations were It professionals. Softesh, little should I say, is an IT professional too.

Before actually getting into Softesh’s problem, let’s just have a quick look at how the roles in IT are demarcated. Any project will have a certain number of SEs allocated apart from the Project Managers (at different level) and People Managers. Project Managers look after the technical aspects of the project and People Managers should see that resources are doing their work.

Also, there are millions and millions of lines of codes available on goosys (yeah the second company took over the first in 2047) all you need to do is to find the correct code customize it and send it across.

Having said that, a typical SEs job has become mind numbingly simple, so simple that the ennui of doing it would force mistakes out of you. So, there are two kinds of SEs people who bend their head and do what is being told and people who protest and people who do neither are deported out of SP. The job of people managers is to identify those SEs who bend their head and do the work, the people will become Project Managers and the second type would become People Managers.


Softesh is a Project Manager material, he has been working incessantly for last 4 months without taking a break, and he has produced millions of lines of code. And on one fine day, he complained of severe head ache and was taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed for Cerebrocitis.

Cerebrocitis is a medical condition where the brain due to evolutionary deficiencies turns out to be a vestigial organ, like appendix and tail bone. The main causes of Cerebrocitis are using your brain essentially (but not restricted to) for brushing your teeth, shaving etc. So, over the years the brain refuses to recognize its presence and the basic mind numbing activities that human does will be taken over by the Spinal Cord.

Softesh, after years of mind numbing work and due to evolutionary defects where his parents or grand parents or great grand parents have never used their brain, has now developed Cerebrocitis, he is now as good as brain less person. All his essential activities of Cut, copy and paste and drinking coffee before a computer will now be taken over by his spinal cord, it has been evolved to undertake these quintessential activities.

Now there has been sudden out break of Cerebrocitis in SP. Thousands and thousands of youth have now become brain less. Now, SP which is known for its brain power has exposed its ugly side, the news spread and the whole world is waiting and watching to see the plight of SP. As of now the Indian biological department has confirmed that this is a new species and named it as Softo Sapiens.