To write something is one and to publish it is another. Had been contemplating on a topic for long and this post is just to get a feel of it. Here we go.
The title comes in a flash. The content for the chosen title comes in small chunks. The overall article takes shape as i assemble the small chunks in a computer; rewritten it at least 3 or 4 times. A good 30 min to 1 hr of time.
This takes me back to days when there were no paper, no pen, no computer. Say let us go back by around 2000 years. If our forefathers wanted to communicate something in writing, they had to carve it on a stone. Imagine the time and effort required. Incidentally, I have not come across any stone engravings with strike marks on it; they cant afford to make mistakes!!!
Even our ancient scriptures on palm leaves required writing with nails. Not so easy either. no room for modification again.
The advent of ink on paper was much easier and so people started writing pages after pages. It would have taken long for newton (17th century) to script his principia. I could only imagine the number of papers, newton would have gifted the waste basket. Euclid writing about geometry around 300 BC is a great wonder.
Astonishingly, one of my favorite author Isaac Asimov had published close to 300 books. How did be manage; only he could tell.
So, Thinking, writing, publishing and of course reading consumes a lot of time and resources. The resources being paper or power consumed by a computer. With computers, the consumption is twice. once for reading and another for writing.
I only wish, if the whole script can be visualized in the mind and better still transferred as a thought. I am told yogi's are/were able to do this with least amount of energy consumption.
So to go green, let us use brain.
The title comes in a flash. The content for the chosen title comes in small chunks. The overall article takes shape as i assemble the small chunks in a computer; rewritten it at least 3 or 4 times. A good 30 min to 1 hr of time.
This takes me back to days when there were no paper, no pen, no computer. Say let us go back by around 2000 years. If our forefathers wanted to communicate something in writing, they had to carve it on a stone. Imagine the time and effort required. Incidentally, I have not come across any stone engravings with strike marks on it; they cant afford to make mistakes!!!
Even our ancient scriptures on palm leaves required writing with nails. Not so easy either. no room for modification again.
The advent of ink on paper was much easier and so people started writing pages after pages. It would have taken long for newton (17th century) to script his principia. I could only imagine the number of papers, newton would have gifted the waste basket. Euclid writing about geometry around 300 BC is a great wonder.
Astonishingly, one of my favorite author Isaac Asimov had published close to 300 books. How did be manage; only he could tell.
So, Thinking, writing, publishing and of course reading consumes a lot of time and resources. The resources being paper or power consumed by a computer. With computers, the consumption is twice. once for reading and another for writing.
I only wish, if the whole script can be visualized in the mind and better still transferred as a thought. I am told yogi's are/were able to do this with least amount of energy consumption.
So to go green, let us use brain.
