Just a Thought

Years ago, when there were no factories, goods were made at home using home-made tools, maybe using some small machines. There were no big businesses and conglomerates, neither big factories. Then came the industrial revolution, and everything changed in a snap. People started building factories filled with machines, which resulted in the mass-production of all goods. The people who lived at home and worked in fields were called to factories. And at that time, those who were then powerful and had money, they put their money in those factories, got them working, got big machines and tools, and put those workers at work. But the workers were treated very poorly. They were paid very little. The working hours were long. The work environment was very pathetic. Very often, people died working in those factories. And if I sum up that condition in one sentence, - the workers were being exploited by a few rich people.  Industrial Revolution But this was the condition back then. Today it's ...

Gone are those days when social media was limited to friend requests, likes, shares, and followers. Right now it is shaping global policy, bringing down governments, making governments. It's completely changing how elections are fought. Indeed social media is a pretty powerful thing. But as the cliche goes - with power comes responsibility. So the real question is - has social media been responsible enough in using that power? Well, not so much. Today's definition of the Internet is Twitter, Youtube, Facebook with a couple of more sites. These are the three ports to this vast ocean of information. These three are the window to the Internet. The answer to what is happening on the Internet is what is happening on these three platforms. But when the Internet became public in its initial days, its definition was very different. The vision for the Internet was very different. Back then the Internet meant possibilities, access to anything, and everything. Of course, everything was...

If you ask people why do they only use google - they would reply because google has answer to everything I ask. and if  you still gaze them with an unsatisfied look they fumble a bit and then snap- because google gives me the most relevant answers- and there you have it. Google is famous not because it knows everything but because it knows what you want to know and then replies accordingly. But the question is how do google do this? Google’s success is built not on collection of a huge data but a new kind of data. Back in the days before Google there were few search engines like Meta Crawler, Lycos, Alta Vista and they were hardly reliable. Sometimes, if you were lucky, they managed to find what you wanted. Often, they would not. If you typed “Bill Clinton” into the most popular search engines in the late 1990s, the top results included a random site that just proclaimed “Bill Clinton Sucks” or a site that featured a bad Clinton joke. Hardly the most relevant information...

Today it’s hard to imagine a living room — or boardroom — where Netflix needs an introduction. With over 125 million subscribers across more than 190 countries, Netflix is causing   hundreds of cable cancellations daily. It hasn't just replaced TV but it also changed the way we consume media. It started with renting DVDs by mail in April 1998 and introduced its subscription model the following year. Nearly a decade later, Netflix started streaming video and changed the way we watch everything. Today, it’s one of the biggest Hollywood distributors and producers of online video—and a prolific global storyteller. So How did the company go from DVD rentals to winning the global market in video streaming? When Netflix started, it allowed its users to create a queue of movies they wanted to watch in the future but didn’t have time for at the moment. This way, when people had more time, Netflix could remind them of those movies. Simple and sound. isn't it. NO, there was rather...

Nothing has contributed to the progress of mankind as much as a free will. Eradicating superstition, breaking down dogma and abandoning servitude has not just bloomed us as a free individual but it also gave us the leverage to grant our uniqueness to the world. While smooth and short this journey might seem seen from the high skylines of the 21st century but it often required immense courage to refute those very people who seem to have provided the foundation of our education. It sometimes meant to teach law to the lawmakers even at a gunpoint. It meant screaming and fighting for the rights. And such acts of bravery wasn't carried out by priests, or aristocrats or ministers but very often by a common man like you and me. Mr. Robot is the portrayal of the same common man who refuses to be the toy in the elite-run world. With the advent of the internet, much of the power that resided in the accumulation of physical property is now in the virtual reality. The one who owns this digit...

So iPhone is out in the market and everyone is losing their mind to get their hands-on to feel that exquisite elegant design in their palm, to get devoured by the beautiful immersive technology we get with Apple products. So there is this thing called optical image stabilization in iPhone 7 and what it does is that it helps us get rid of shakiness in our picture when we click it with our hand giving us that perfect shot, that exact frame what we want. Well, it couldn't be better for all those "selfievorous" millennials. They are like in the seventh heaven but it isn't the same for me. See, I'm not a cynic. I don't hate this digital age but think about it. Isn't it more fun to have that bit of shakiness in our picture, a bit of blurriness so that we can click again and again to get that perfect shot? Isn't it more exciting to lineup and take out our selfie stick with a grin smile on our face only to find that we gotta click it again because someone ju...

What is that thing that scares you the most? What is that thing that takes your breath away and leaves you dead and stiff? Oh! that depends on your age. For a newborn, it might be waking up in the morning and not finding her mother around. For a toddler, it would be when he is left all alone in a dark room. For a guy like me, getting up on an exam day with the least idea what am I am going to write on the paper. And as to old people, I have no idea what they scared of. Maybe a ghost,  by the way, ghost scares everyone. So basically our intimidation does vary with our age and the experiences we get exposed to but do you have any idea what is united states of America scared of?  Yes, United States of America. I might be at risk of appearing a jerk to you as to why the fuck America need to be afraid of anybody.  After all, they are the superpower. They have the economy, military, technology. They have the nuclear weapon. We know how Japan was retaliated and withered to as...

On 20th July 2016 founder of Kickass Torrent was arrested in Poland leading to the shutdown of the website. Soon after internet deluged with outpouring support for the man and once again rekindled the eternal debate on online piracy. Increasing government crackdown on torrent sites has annoyed millions of people across the world who see their access to piracy as their democratic right. So let's know how it is indeed our right and how a war on online piracy is a war on democracy. If you look into the very core mechanism of these torrent sites, what they do is that they let you share something that you have with someone who doesn't have. It is that simple. Sharing is one of the greatest virtue of a human being. Sharing of knowledge, sharing of information, sharing of happiness, sadness - that is what has thrived us for years. Humans could have extinct long back in the ice age if they would have come collectively shared each others courage,  knowledge, and power to face such adv...

November 20, 2015, old blog post from the previous blog Steve Jobs is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation. He is the one who initiated personal computer revolution. He did things that other considered impossible. He started Apple from his parents garage and with his intuition, vision and hard work made it the world’s most valuable company. Steve Jobs’s life was like a roller-coaster. He had a lot of ups and downs. Being adopted at birth, to discarding formal education, to be fired from his company shows how hard it was. Despite all these, he did what he wanted because he once dipped himself in the spiritual world. Let’s know why Steve Jobs chose spirituality when he was young. The Truth of being Adopted Steve Jobs knew from his early age that he was adopted. The fact that he was adopted was like a hole in his life, and he wanted to fill that up. Being adopted gave him a sense of rejection at birth, and it hurt him. He wanted to meet his biological parents, not b...

Since human evolution art has been one of the key things which have contributed a lot in making our world meaningful and beautiful. It is the thing that has given us the eyes to the aesthetic values, but it has been long since we have altered or broadened the horizon of art. So, what is an art and who is an artist? Is it merely the one who paints, sings or writes is an artist. To me, Art is all about emotions. If any piece of your work carries your emotion is an art. And this is what musicians, writers, and painters do, and we call them artists. So, what would we say to people who use the same emotion in creating a product -  rather industrial product? Is he/she not an artist? Art credit Artistic Intrusion Steve Jobs’s early Lifestyle was like every other Artist There was the beginning of counter-culture revolution when Steve Jobs was in his teens. He was fascinated by its philosophy and way of living. The counterculture was the voice to all the alienated kids who were r...

The light of hope faints when the candle is forfeited for lightening the darkness. When the wind is parried from blowing its charm and when a bird is caged for chirping its harmony. The moment a creature is restrained from forming its true form, it loses the very sole purpose of its livelihood. Aaron Swartz was certainly a kind of creature, a human being who wanted to free us from the deadly jaws of a hoggish system. An American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist, who used his life to make the world a better place but it seemed like the world wasn’t that better to accept the change. Equal access to Knowledge for every Person The foundation of freedom is laid by the bricks of knowledge and the knowledge is “Freedom is not given to us, it’s our right.” Aaron Swartz wanted to aware people about their rights. He wanted to make this world equal and balanced, may not be economically but knowledgeably,  where every person has equal acc...

 There is a beautiful quote in German: “Die schlimmste Art, jemanden zu vermissen, ist die, an seiner Seite zu stehen und zu wissen, dass er nie zu einem gehören wird.” - There is no worse way of missing someone than to sit next to them, knowing they’ll never be with you. The romantic story of love tells us that our search for a partner is inspired, above all else, by a desire to find someone who can make us happy. who can help us come alive, who can hold our hands and look into our eyes and can reassure us that everything is ok. that everything is fine and even if it isn't, it won't matter because she will be there with me always. And this desire to find that person sometimes gets so intense that we really don't care if that person has to be a human being or just its shadow, a love or mere its reflection, or in some cases just a voice. The movie Her doesn't just show us how ubiquitous artificial intelligence would get in these coming years or how exciting would it ...