Human civilization is fairly new when considering the time scale of everything around us. Yet, we often think how awfully old and complicated we are. We often think that everything is for us and we are the zenith of God’s creation. All the galaxies, spread billions of light years away, with billions of stars each, [...]
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After seeing the movie “Minority Report”, we may have thought that it is another fancy of Science fiction from Hollywood. But sometimes, art inspires science, and more so Hollywood. A lot of things displayed in that movie are quite plausible and in fact are being researched and developed by the brightest minds at MIT. My [...]
I love this guy! He knows what he is talking about and presents his idea with sarcasm and humor. But I love his presentation at Ted for some other reason. Long time back when I was in High School, I had written a paper on future of human evolution, with naive mind set. I was [...]
Google SMS
Feb 19
Did you know about Google SMS? If your answer was NO, then don’t be embarrassed as I learned about this cool feature not very long ago. The only thing is, you must be textually active to use this cool new feature. So here is how it works: you text a simple query to GOOGLE [466453] [...]
mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu virus
Arctic Ice in death spiral
Sep 22
Reminds of Spielburg’s movie Artificial Intelligence, in which they show Earth at 2040 with depicts a total melt down of poles. NY city is lost to the seas and at the same time, there are “MECA” i.e. robots as intelligent as humans. What looked like science fiction, now appears more and more like reality.