Imagine.
Our much loved fairy tale characters, armed with
apps. Would the stories have taken a different turn? Let’s put 5 of them to the
app-test and see the stories, h-appily ever after.
Poor Hansel and Gretel had the misfortune of being lost in
the big, dark, forest. Now, if only Hansel and Gretel had been armed with
google maps, they would have never had to strew breadcrumbs on the trail back
home. As for the poor hungry bird who ate up all the breadcrumbs, a food
technology delivery app like Swiggy would have got her all the bird-feed she
needed before she could even tweet her distress.
What about Cinderella and the fairy godmother? Ever wondered
why the godmother had to ask Cinderella to return by the stroke of
midnight? Did the magic spell broke then
or maybe it had something to do with return policy of the things she procured
for Cinderella? Valid for only 6 hours? Now, if only fairy godmother had access
to Amazon or Flipkart on her magic wand smartphone, she would have dressed up
Cinderella to the hilt and Cinderella could have partied away all night without
losing her hair or shoe.
Now, Sleeping Beauty had a different challenge. Falling
asleep for 100 years and waiting for the Prince to wake her up. How boring it
must have been for the poor Princess. As for the Prince. Why wait for a 100
years? Maybe the Prince was fighting traffic challenges of a different kind.
Well, one click of Uber or Ola and the Prince would have been delivered to the
doorstep of the sleeping, bored, Princess. And while he was waiting for
Princess to wake up, he could have read her stories using the latest Kindle
app. Till it was time to wake up to the new mobile wake up alarm.
Let’s peep into the tower of Rapunzel combing her shiny,
long hair with hundred painstaking brushstrokes, yet to realize the hair would
soon disappear. And that the poor Prince would not have her braided tresses to
make the ascent to the tower. Well, one clap to Urban Ladder and a new, shiny ladder
would have saved the duo much drama and the evil witch would have been able to
take a nap in between her wicked spells.
What about Rumpelstiltskin? The queen went to so much
trouble, sending her loyal soldiers all over the country to search for the
name of evil Rumpelstiltskin. Well, a crowdsourcing app to get answers from
multiple people; Quora.com or such, would have crunched time and money; not
that money would have been an issue in those pre-double-dip-recession days.
But yes, the ending would still have been the Queens’ victory, with crowdsourced
intelligence.
Alas, our fairy tale characters, had to work much harder in
those days, without the tell-tale apps of today to click on their hearts’
desire.
App in hand, they could have been singing these stories, h-appily
ever after.
