Srilanka, March 8 -- Once upon a time - long, long ago - there was a species. They too had a name like us: Homo Sapiens. We can call them our ancestors as we have most of their characteristics left as their descendants. We still retain the same name, but scholars who matter have a new name for us: Homo Technicus.

The Sapiens and Technicus share and possess some common and unique traits. There are some other traits that separate the Sapiens and Technicus as well. The major difference, perhaps, is that Technicus is busier than Sapiens.

An example would suffice to explain this a little better. Take Shakespeare, for example. I am not sure if any modern-day scribe could claim the gravity and weight of the Shakespeare corpus. That number of p...