Tag: technology
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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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Are we running faster than we should?
Maybe, it’s time to slow down a little bit In today’s times, everything has become fast paced! The internet has become fast. The electronic gadgets have become fast. The redundancy of obsolete technology (like mobile phones, tablets) has become fast. And even food has become “fast” (food). I wonder that in this transition of life…
Anupam- The Dreamer 