Living in 21st century

Its quite evident that we are facing huge amount of technological disruption. The pace of change has gone to such a level that no one can make sense of what is happening around the world. More and more money is being put in R&D and pace of change is accelerating every day , everybody wants to get there first. Although this rapid advancement in technology has huge potential , we humans are not very farsighted , because we don't have the tools to forecast the implications of something deep down the line. Nonethless nobody can risk it, they have to get there first.  Everyday Facebook , Youtube , Netflix etc are collecting tons of data, and they are beginning to understand what triggers us. Social media seems free , but obviously its not, you are not only paying with your time but most importantly your attention.They know exactly where your attention is. These companies have collected huge amounts of data , with our advances in computing power they possess the ability to hack our m

I recently completed 6 seasons of "The 100" , a Netflix Series, this series covers a lot of ground, making it an epitome of technological disruption. It is set in a post apocalyptic world , almost a century later an apparent nuclear war resulted in demise of the planet earth , apparently last of humanity resides on a space station , which they call the Ark. The life support at ark is dying so 100 juveniles are sent to the ground to check if it is safe. They land on ground assuming they are the last of humanity , its kinda obvious they are not alone.  Slowly the story builds up and you are up for a ride. I will not bore you with the specifics but lets see what was it all about. The series is packed with all sorts of technological marvels and our apparent inability to decide what we really want. They have literally covered it all. What they thought to be a nuclear war turned out to be a AI gone out of control ( this one's definitely a cliche) , Meanwhile they were strugglin

What is it that makes us perceive this world, guessed it right ,the brain. Probably the most mysterious part of our body , as complex as it gets. Turns out brain has an ability of making sense of data thrown at it. Our eyes are responsible for converting visual data in form of signals to feed it into the brain. Which slowly learns to make sense of it. How exactly it does that is still a mystery. What if those visual signals may be passed to brain in some other way, Formally called sensory substitution. It can be through skin , ear , nose , even tongue or how about providing visual data to brain directly. One such example is Brainport in which pixel data is transmitted in form of electric pulses through a persons tongue.Sounds pretty cool to me. So what is the point. The thing is what we feel as real is mostly in our head really being just matter and energy, how brain makes sense of it is remarkable. We possess such an amazing machine so why just rely on the sensory information that we