Recently I was invited to address school students and the topic given to me was Control -Alt-Delete. I don’t identify with the terminology because I was born pre computer times. But as a writer, I have a relationship with the commands, in fact I am the first editor to go on the internet in India. Shammi Kapoor, President of Yahoo launched our publication on the internet and therefore, I have a long and a psychological attachment with technology. I control the keyboard yes but can all the alphabets/ numbers/ exclamations put together, control my thoughts? Answer is No.
Alt is a facilitator but again all the options put together cannot generate content simply because I conceive/ create/ project my own content! The Delete command I feel is more for aesthetics because it facilitates an impression of a clean copy. In the olden days, when there were no laptops, we used ink and paper and scratched the required out all that was unrequired. The bottom line is that computer is not life and my journey is dependent on my circumstances. My options are dependent on my destiny and I can never delete what occurs in my existence, at the most, I can damage control it.