Is A Bot After Your Job?
Image: Robin Williams in the Bicentennial Man Yuval Noah Harari paints an interesting and arguably grim picture of the future, in his book Homo Deus. He runs through possible ways in which the world and we humans…
Category: The known unknown
Points of View – Life, Work and Religion
Benjamin Franklin | Image: source How open or rigid, would you say your views and beliefs are? Here's an excerpt from Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, in which he mentions the following interaction with someone: I was acquainted…
Peace, War, or Chekh-mate
In his book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari mentions Russia's greatest short story writers Anton Chekhov having once said that a gun appearing in the first act of a play will inevitably be fired in the third. Yuval says that…
Primum Non Nocere
Image: source It is believed that either Hippocrates, considered as the father of medicine, or one of his pupils wrote what is popularly known as the Hippocratic Oath, a solemn oath known to be taken by…
Do You Like Your News Well Done, or Rare?
Image: source A few years ago, my dad had pointed out how refreshing it was to hear All India Radio. All India Radio is India's national, public news radio station. He said it was a welcome…
Let Our Work Drive Our Energy
Let Our Work Drive Our Energy There is so much we can learn from the views, experiences and beliefs of others; especially if our own values have strong roots in light of the learning of…
Brick & mortar won’t be dead by 2023
Brick & mortar won't be dead by 2023 Extreme comments or views are often a huge hit or miss. And Niti Aayog’s Mr. Kant’s futuristic sounding comment about how brick and mortar businesses in India…
Moral Dilemmas from the Future
Image: source I came across this extremely interesting article around the future of healthcare that gives us a peek into the near future. It also highlights increasing complexity and moral high seas that businesses need…
To Drive or not to Drive?
Image: source To Drive or not to Drive? There was an extremely interesting article on Business Insider recently about the future of driving. Transport saw one huge jump when horses as modes of transport were…
Just Like That
Just Like That I have always disliked the idea of businesses buying, and friends forcing 'Likes' on Facebook. The number of likes really skews the picture. It makes it difficult to differentiate between a business that has…
Death and The Maiden
Death and The Maiden "Tonight's happy song, kinda like a walk in the park ..the sun coming through the window in the morning on a beautiful day... and you have nothing better to do than…