Do not worry I am not going to rant in any technical aspects here. Just wanted to show you something. The something is nothing but your thumb, yes the thumb finger is what I am talking about. Lets gauge its power today.
Biologically we, the humans are a privileged species with the extensive usability of the thumb. To grab and do things. Try holding anything without using your thumb and chances are that the grab will be almost ineffective. The most important reference of this power of the thumb we find in Indian mythology is from Mahabharata when Dronacharya asks Ekalavya for his thumb.
In terms of measurements, the size of the thumb became what we till this date refer to as the inch. This means some ingenious individual realized that more o less the size of the thumb remains constant.
Add more ingenuity to this idea, the print of our thumb till this date acts as a sure shot identification marker with every person having his own personalized print.
But why am i talking about all this things which have long gone by? Ask yourself, which device are you using to read this article? Has to be computer, a handheld device and maybe something I know not. In this age I expect you to have come across cell phones, remote controllers, PDAs etc. very important part of most of our lives isn’t it? Last question, how do you type your SMSes?
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