'Different Kind Of Cage': Anand Mahindra Shares Video Of Parrot Using Touchscreen To Explain Tech Addiction

"It's a cage which devoids you of productivity and only consumes you!," commented one user on the post.

Anand Mahindra shares video of parrot using touchscreen to explain tech addiction

Source : @anandmahindra/Twitter

Industrialist Anand Mahindra, who is an active social media user often shares creative, inspirational and motivational thoughts that become viral. This time the business tycoon has taken to the microblogging site X, formerly Twitter, to share his thoughts about people being glued to their smartphones. He shared his concerns about excessive screen time by sharing a video of a parrot  ostensibly using a touchscreen device using its beak just like humans.

"Parrots can understand touch screens & like watching other parrots. Sound familiar? Well ‘to parrot’ means to imitate. But please tell this parrot that once you begin imitating THIS habit of humans, there’s no escape from a different kind of ‘cage!’," reads the caption of the post shared by Mahindra.

The clip opens to show the parrot perched on a table with a tablet opened in front of it. With the help of its beak, the parrot can be seen scrolling the screen and choosing and clicking on the video it wants to see. At one point, a person close the video, but the parrot goes to the YouTube channel and opens the a video again. It scrolls through the videos with great ease.

Since being shared by Anand Mahindra, the clip has amassed 429.6k views, 4,159 likes and tons of comments.

Parrots can understand touch screens & like watching other parrots. Sound familiar? Well ‘to parrot’ means to imitate. But please tell this parrot that once you begin imitating THIS habit of humans, there’s no escape from a different kind of ‘cage!’ pic.twitter.com/6F7wCuK7jA

— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) October 17, 2023

"It’s a cage which devoids you of productivity and only consumes you!," commented one user on the post.

"I was stunned when a one year old baby did a similar stuff. Now I am spellbound," wrote another user.

"apart from humans, all are imitating humans. humans are imitating machines," commented a third.

While a fourth wrote, Even at this level you devout so much time in sharing such clips with us is incredible. More power to you Sir.