Tag: technology
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The fading boundary between real and fake!
Yesterday I was listening to the AI-generated Kishor Kumar version of “Saiyaara song” and if you would just close your eyes and listen to the song, I bet you couldn’t make out whether this is an AI-generated fake version or is it the real legen…(wait for it)…dary Kishor Kumar singing! The boundaries have faded to…
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The ultimate aim of life and how to achieve it?
No matter what we do (or not do) in life, it ultimately sums up to just one thing. It is the raison détre of doing (or not doing) anything. And what is that elusive (or as it seems elusive) thing? It is nothing other than the desire to seek happiness. The common denominator of our…
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Stepping into unchartered territory of future….
The future has never been so uncertain and unpredictable in the history of humanity, as it is now. This may seem a little exaggeration to some of you, but don’t rush, it will be clear to you in a few minutes if you are ready to be patient. Earlier, the pace of change throughout human…
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Market economy and hyper-technology wiping out small joys of life- the missing human touch
While taking an afternoon stroll, I noticed a budhi amma selling jaamun in a small tokri at street-side in the scorching heat of summers. She was looking very frail and aged, still she was working hard under a hot burning sun to make the ends meet. I asked her “Amma, jaamun kitne me diye?” She…
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Is materialism the ultimate goal or there is something more?- The story of Mike
Mike is a 51-year old filthy-rich investment banker who lives in the USA. Mike has every material comfort of life- he lives in a self-owned mansion, drives a Ferrari car, has all the modern amenities in his home, uses only top-end Apple products and wears a diamond-studded Rolex watch. On top of this, he has…
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Theory and practical: mutually exclusive or a cyclical loop?
We have often heard from the people who have done hard work all their life at the ground level that practical knowledge is everything! All theoretical knowledge according to them is just for getting a college degree, which has no meaning in real life. At the other end of spectrum are the people, although in…
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Traditions and modernism OR traditions vs. modernism- that is the question!
We live in the self-proclaimed age of modernism. And we (here ‘we’ denotes humanity collectively) believe ourselves to be the most modern and most advanced of any of the human generations that have ever existed on this planet. After all, we all have studied “Darwin theory of evolution” in our schools, and therefore we believe…
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Is it opportune time to revisit the ghost of Malthus?
Inherent contradictions between Human population growth, quality of life of every human and the expanding resource crunch More than 2 centuries ago, in 1798, famous economist of that era Thomas Robert Malthus prophesised in his book called “An essay on the Principle of Population” about Mathusianism or Malthusian trap. According to this theory of Malthusianism,…
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Going gaga over hefty packages- saga of misplaced priorities!
Come December every year and the placement bells start ringing across many engineering colleges across the country. The exuberance and the paraphernalia surrounding the placement season often creates the hype around the packages that are going to be offered this season. This gives news bytes to the media channels, in terms of evaluating the “Best…
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The artificial world of “Artificial Intelligence”-
It’s conflict with “Natural Intelligence” and the rapid rise of moral dilemmas The other day, I was reading an article about how ChatGPT can be used to write a note on a particular subject. Initially, I doubted its capability to write a note and hence was reluctant to use it. But after some nudge, I…
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