How Can We Matter

We have all seen countless sunrises and moonrises in our life and their beauty continues to enthrall us. These celestial spectacles have captivated poets for ages, their verses overflowing with the allure of the unknown and the whispers of the divine. One such acclaimed poet was Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, popularly known as just Rumi. He was a poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic, born on September 30, 1207. Almost 1200 years ago, Rumi observed moonrise and composed the fascinating poem, "At the Twilight", that transcends the physical realm, offering a glimpse of a mystical union. Pardon me for rephrasing Rumi's poem by interchanging the words 'moon' for 'earth', and vice versa, in the following lines:  "At the twilight, an earth appeared in the sky; Then it landed on moon to look at me. Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey; That earth stole me and rushed back into the sky. I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has many uses and potential misuses. This post presents some examples of how AI can be used, misused, and abused and its potential consequences. Seeing the World Through Our Lens It all started when my imagination was triggered by a cloud formation of an image in the azure sky that looked like a giant face peeking out from behind a building. Immediately I captured that image with my mobile phone camera on 31 May 2024 at 18:21hrs. It goes without saying that what we observe in the sky depends on the way the image is visualized, conceived, and interpreted by us. This in turn is shaped by our background and life experiences.  That is, our ability to see, hear, and become aware of the image, through the limits of human senses, creates different perceptions on different people. AI: A Creative Tool Inspired by what I visualized in the photo, I used an AI tool (Google Gemini) to generate ideas for a poem. Of course, the poem is not a verbatim reproduction of w...

I asked Google's new advanced AI chatbot, Gemini , this question! This is also an experiment to see whether we can use these Artificial Intelligence tools for our personal decision making. Here is the answer Gemini came up with.  Copyright Web The Candidate Narendra Modi is the current Prime Minister of India. He has been in office since 2014, and his term will expire in 2024. Whether or not he is a good candidate to lead India for the next 5 years is a matter of opinion. His Accomplishments Some people believe that Modi is a strong leader who has made significant progress in improving India's economy and infrastructure. They point to his government's initiatives such as Make in India and Digital India as evidence of his commitment to modernizing the country. India's GDP growth rate has been strong under his leadership, and millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. Modi has also been praised for his foreign policy, which has seen India forge closer ties with t...

The National Post Day of India is celebrated every year on October 10. Indian Postal Department is around 170 years old. It was Lord Dalhousie who founded India Post in the year 1854.   National Post Day 2023 The World Post Day is an international day that is celebrated each year on October 9, the anniversary of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), which started in 1874 in Switzerland. These early postal systems were the start of the global communications revolution, introducing the ability to send / receive letters to / from others all over the world.  My contemporaries belong to a generation that heavily depended on the Postal Department for our communication. Compared to the instant WhatsApp communication today, we belonged to a dinosaur era that had its own charm. In those bygone days we used to pen our thoughts carefully on paper using legible handwriting, go to a post office to buy an envelope, write the address of our friend or relative on it, insert our hand-crafted lett...

India has strategically exploited new technologies to address development gaps and spur economic growth. Under Modi's dynamic leadership our policymakers have adopted  leap-frogging as a possible strategy for driving growth.

Facebook is not a blogging tool, though some people claim Facebook Notes, Facebook Pages, Facebook Groups are possible alternatives for people who might not have their own dedicated blog or website. And I have been using Facebook for Blogging on a variety of topics.  

It sounds like an oxymoron - Brainless Advertising! But I have come to the conclusion that some of the most intelligent people are using Artificial Intelligence, in the most stupid manner. When I watch a YouTube or Facebook video, I see advertisements popping up disrupting the flow of the report / story / music / movie that I am following. Naturally, my first priority is how to stop this intervention.  

Sometimes when I look up a particular address in Google Map, like that of a house, restaurant, shop, etc. I get that strange and creepy feeling when Google tells me about that place: 'You visited in (Month or Day)'! Especially when the visit was years ago and you have completely forgotten about it.

As Fintech (financial technology) becomes more sophisticated with advances in IT, so do the related financial crimes and criminals. With huge increase in digital adoption, many consumers who lack the knowledge or experience in using Fintech based apps and solutions, which provide access to risky and complex financial products, are getting cheated.

Good to see that, in order to support the rising trend of work-from-home culture all over the world, Portugal has taken the lead in revising the labor laws as applicable to the digital workers!

People in my age group need to know these five technical tasks to be completed before we depart from this life:

That is the type of Vision our country should have - for year 2070!

With the change of the company's name to Meta, several things are going to happen to Facebook and other products. American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson introduced the term metaverse in his science fiction novel Snow Crash, published in 1992. 

Can we find the truth behind any happening today? Political and commercial pressures have led todays' journalists to reconsider the value and meaning of objectivity. Is there an objective truth? 

"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Mark Zuckerberg changes Facebook’s parent company name to Meta. Will this change in name have any impact on the scandal-plagued social networking platform? And on the workings of other products such as WhatsApp and Instagram?   He says, "Right now, our brand is so tightly linked to one product that it can't possibly represent everything that we're doing today, let alone in the future". Good luck and best wishes Mark. We are looking forward to a complete revamp of the products in the near future.  

My dear grandson - you have turned eighteen! Today is the first day of a new chapter in your life. You only have one more year as a teenager, when your age number ends with ' teen'.  You have turned 18 but always remember that your parents will never stop nagging and telling you what to do!

The injection that one gets on the first day of existence to prove that we are now an official entity by assigning a unique ID. It was 4 years ago that I wrote about implanting a microchip in newborns just under the skin. 

Referring to one of the greatest philosophical debate of ancient India between the young Shankaracharya and the elderly Mandana Misra , PM Modi talks about the importance of dialogue, without anger and conflict, for the resolution of today’s problems.

Eliminating brokers, intermediaries, touts, and middlemen from many of the services offered by the Government to the public has been the hallmark of this Administration, ever since Modi came to power. We have middlemen of various types operating in the country. 

If you can resonate with terms like blackhole, universe, multiverse, white-hole, final theory of everything, string theory, the mind of God, etc. then this video by Prof Michio Kaku on The Future of Humanity is for you.