Arriving at the Changi airport in 2005 June, little did I believe that I would be putting my life into a 14 year haitus from homeland into a new thriving metro-city state Singapore.
Yes things are swanky, squeeky clean, and very advanced in Singapore, and for the people of malleable minds, the ideal place to call their new home, where they will seek to earn, save and retire- (Naah, not retire here).
I am putting my thoughts as a Mechanical Design professional who came here and sought jobs without the help of contract agents in India, (which I firmly say is the wrong way) as just another jobseeker and not an Expat.
There are a few ways people landed with jobs in Sg during that time:
1) come here for education, do a Post Graduation, and then land a job
2) come as a foreign talent thru an Employment Agency from India- more like a sought after professional
3) come as an EXPAT- a breed of wealthy ; get-all; give a little; very lucky few
4) come on a social visit and hunt jobs during that stay
The difference in is humongous.
Saturday, March 30, 2019
Friday, December 16, 2016
2016 Good Bye- A survey of what transpired
2017 has come to our doorstep, as 2016 is slowly exiting our lives.
The year that passed has shown great changes in our lives, whether we believe or are aware of it or not.
Some Global events I can recall:
1) The warmest year for all months individually as well
2) The year when Solar and renewable Energy stakes have risen to a level unprecedented over the last decade, even though we all knew this should have happened at least 5 years ago. Slowly costs of alternate energy systems are dropping to sustainable and viable alternative levels, and chasing out the traditional coal and oil based energy supply with a nasty bitter taste of things to come. more than 30 Giga Watts of solar and 10 x of Wind energy farms have been installed!
3) The year when auto / self driven vehicles have been trialed with human willing passengers in several locations around the world. Coupled with this is the arrival (rather rebirth) of the Electric vehicle economy led by major auto makers including Tesla, GM, Honda, Toyota ..
4) Melting of Polar Ice sheets is on a run away state now, and new shipping navigation lanes have become available across the arctic circle
5) Tech and Gadgets have made an interesting advance into the realms of Artificial Intelligence. specially image / vision related computing has made huge strides enabling hand-held recognition and security.
6) This is one I have never been able to understand - Quantum Computing has started getting a space on PCBs and Mother boards as prototypes with amazing speeds using a combination of Light and Magnetism in addition to exisitng top class digital electronics.
7) Adding on to the artificial Intelligence is the development of Neural Network- Electronic Brain mimicing chips.
8) Interstellar and Interplanetary exploration- Mars; UFOs and Planet X theories and actual knowledge advances have also made headlines this year. Several private enterprises with the dream of planetary exploration have begun to dig-in and start work on their plans in a real, non-hypothetical way, which is good for Humanity. We must all find a way to be able to populate other worlds if a few thousand years from now earth as we know it will not be liveable.
Of great interest to me is the possible existence of a ninth planet which has an orbit about 30 degree of the plane of our orbit, and is said to be able to cause the entire solar system to indeed undergo a tilt due to its gravitational pull. Lets see how that one develops.
9) This was a particularly cold year for Religion the world over. No great stories from Vatican, Jerusalem, Mekka, Shankaracharya etc, at all.
10) Politically this was a tormenting year- all hell broke loose in all places around USA, S. America; Europe, West Asia, Middle East, and our own Sub-continent. Powers that be and took for granted their ability to stay on have been humbled and tumbled.
Parties which enjoyed public favour suddenly lost all control of their behaviour and fell to the way side. At the same time, People who were despised in the Third Pillar ( all forms of media ) became the toast of the town ( excellent examples Trump and Duterte.
Countries like Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq are suffering innumerable human fatalities in conflict zones that are meaningless and going on because of Hegemony of few powerful states that sell weapons to both fighting parties across the world.
India has had its share of this thru' our EFE (Enemy For Ever) Pakistan. But this year saw an unprecedented upping of the retaliation from Indian armed forces, which hasn't changed the equation, but at least gives our people a slight reprieve that the the giver of foul acts is begetting at its own behest!
Looking ahead 2017 promises humans a few positives based on the trends of 2016.
1) Reliance on fossil fuels will drop drastically- which is good to reduce carbon emissions, and allow a space for earths rising temperatures to sober down a bit.
2) People of completely different clout than politics have entered the fray, and will provide leadership that non-politicians only can provide, thus a chance of reducing complicated / calculated / selfish decisions may either reduce drastically or if these people loose it, increase drastically
3) Technology and Computing will make even greater progress as we harness powers of artificial systems that can work on problem solving devotedly and with a bit of human intellect and lateral thinking abilities.
4) Gadgets will be able to make life simpler, at a stiff cost but for people like me who drool on gadgets.. its time to make merry!
To end I wish all my readers a Splendid, Prosperous and Wonderful New Year 2017!!
may God Bless us all with wisdom, peace and love.
The year that passed has shown great changes in our lives, whether we believe or are aware of it or not.
Some Global events I can recall:
1) The warmest year for all months individually as well
2) The year when Solar and renewable Energy stakes have risen to a level unprecedented over the last decade, even though we all knew this should have happened at least 5 years ago. Slowly costs of alternate energy systems are dropping to sustainable and viable alternative levels, and chasing out the traditional coal and oil based energy supply with a nasty bitter taste of things to come. more than 30 Giga Watts of solar and 10 x of Wind energy farms have been installed!
3) The year when auto / self driven vehicles have been trialed with human willing passengers in several locations around the world. Coupled with this is the arrival (rather rebirth) of the Electric vehicle economy led by major auto makers including Tesla, GM, Honda, Toyota ..
4) Melting of Polar Ice sheets is on a run away state now, and new shipping navigation lanes have become available across the arctic circle
5) Tech and Gadgets have made an interesting advance into the realms of Artificial Intelligence. specially image / vision related computing has made huge strides enabling hand-held recognition and security.
6) This is one I have never been able to understand - Quantum Computing has started getting a space on PCBs and Mother boards as prototypes with amazing speeds using a combination of Light and Magnetism in addition to exisitng top class digital electronics.
7) Adding on to the artificial Intelligence is the development of Neural Network- Electronic Brain mimicing chips.
8) Interstellar and Interplanetary exploration- Mars; UFOs and Planet X theories and actual knowledge advances have also made headlines this year. Several private enterprises with the dream of planetary exploration have begun to dig-in and start work on their plans in a real, non-hypothetical way, which is good for Humanity. We must all find a way to be able to populate other worlds if a few thousand years from now earth as we know it will not be liveable.
Of great interest to me is the possible existence of a ninth planet which has an orbit about 30 degree of the plane of our orbit, and is said to be able to cause the entire solar system to indeed undergo a tilt due to its gravitational pull. Lets see how that one develops.
9) This was a particularly cold year for Religion the world over. No great stories from Vatican, Jerusalem, Mekka, Shankaracharya etc, at all.
10) Politically this was a tormenting year- all hell broke loose in all places around USA, S. America; Europe, West Asia, Middle East, and our own Sub-continent. Powers that be and took for granted their ability to stay on have been humbled and tumbled.
Parties which enjoyed public favour suddenly lost all control of their behaviour and fell to the way side. At the same time, People who were despised in the Third Pillar ( all forms of media ) became the toast of the town ( excellent examples Trump and Duterte.
Countries like Syria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Congo, Iraq are suffering innumerable human fatalities in conflict zones that are meaningless and going on because of Hegemony of few powerful states that sell weapons to both fighting parties across the world.
India has had its share of this thru' our EFE (Enemy For Ever) Pakistan. But this year saw an unprecedented upping of the retaliation from Indian armed forces, which hasn't changed the equation, but at least gives our people a slight reprieve that the the giver of foul acts is begetting at its own behest!
Looking ahead 2017 promises humans a few positives based on the trends of 2016.
1) Reliance on fossil fuels will drop drastically- which is good to reduce carbon emissions, and allow a space for earths rising temperatures to sober down a bit.
2) People of completely different clout than politics have entered the fray, and will provide leadership that non-politicians only can provide, thus a chance of reducing complicated / calculated / selfish decisions may either reduce drastically or if these people loose it, increase drastically
3) Technology and Computing will make even greater progress as we harness powers of artificial systems that can work on problem solving devotedly and with a bit of human intellect and lateral thinking abilities.
4) Gadgets will be able to make life simpler, at a stiff cost but for people like me who drool on gadgets.. its time to make merry!
To end I wish all my readers a Splendid, Prosperous and Wonderful New Year 2017!!
may God Bless us all with wisdom, peace and love.
Sunday, November 3, 2013
education, teaching and technology
Hi,
Its been a long time since the last post. I have been thinking and thinking about how and what to do with my life at 45. This nebulous period of ones life brings us to a lot of deep thoughts and total inaction on many issues that actually require immediate and galvanized action.
Lets see the issues I am facing:
1) As an educator in a private institute
I feel great pain in following the prusuits of my duty towards my organisation as it comes at loggerheads with my passion to teach. We educators are supposedly more idealistic than other occupations, specially so for the old lot of us, who still learnt our lessons without multimedia and presentations in classrooms.
The two cross purposes we feel pulling us apart are:
A- As the number of private educational institutes proliferate, the competition is getting the better of all of them by making the bottomline the overall determining factor, whilst the quality of intake (students) and the delivered output (graduates) hardly matter.
We educators are observing a very disturbing trend of poorer quality on both counts. (We can think of the process in between as What goes In determines What comes out ).
B- So as the centre point of the process, we have to lower our standards of teaching and testing to accomodate the managements need for numbers and bottomline.
That in itself is not so bad, but when one knows that the graduates are going to lay the future paths for the world, it gets us worried -A LOT! For we know these people dont know anything they are talking about. All they care for is a certificate with their name on it, and a degree to boot.
The second thing I want to share today is relevant to education methods, technologies, and techniques
2) The state of Educational Technology and being a teacher.
I am proud to say that I am well versed in Information Technology, and can do tasks like creating a webpage, editing photos, making a good simple presentation, and few nifty programming zone tasks along with the use of CAD, and CAE.
But if I am fearful of the next wave of education technology onslaught, then it must be a serious thing.
What I am talking about is the fact that now educators are not in control of the content they deliver any more. Instead a bunch of tech geeks are creating materials that are impossible for us to rival, and delivering it straight to the organisations we work for. The fear factor of the deal begins after that. Our managements expect us to adopt to these materials, and create or at least "enhance" a better learning experience for our students based on these.
It is ok to expect us to deliver our lectures and classes using these new media materials, but expecting us to be good at it is getting us very uncomfortable. For one, those EduTech companies do not hire us educators of the past generations so we have no real training or foundation on these media factory methods, and to top it up, the new generations of students are very rapidly changing their choice for consumption.
It is impossible to handle on proactive content creation at our ends.
Increased us of tablets and handphones in classes makes it very difficult to keep students on the main topic of discussions. The manners, way of social interaction, changes in the pivot of moral values, and many more apparently smaller but aspects that greatly disturb the divinity of a class, are now beyond repair.
Students try to insult the teachers more often and by default. Peers get cajoled into this behaviour as they think that is the way to look COOL. (When we were studying in schools and even thru graduate school, we never ever tried to talk in the negative light with our instructors. This is not to be seen anymore.) All students have an opinion, no matter how unqualified or ill benchmarked it may be.
There are many directions my mind is pulling me : Become one of those behind the new media courseware is the first thought that comes. However, there is no entry point to this world for a 45 year old instructor of the old and not so old school of thought. To qualify, one can be a dumb programmer, not even a designer who can make interactive content.
There are many directions my mind is pulling me : Become one of those behind the new media courseware is the first thought that comes. However, there is no entry point to this world for a 45 year old instructor of the old and not so old school of thought. To qualify, one can be a dumb programmer, not even a designer who can make interactive content.
Great Multimedia Sound Collections Here!
3) As we grow into our middle ages we have a lot of commitments to take care of, but in careers that have not really got into mainstream, we get waylaid in terms of salaries, and with each passing year, we find that the people who make hiring decisions, tend to gloss over our resumes as being too old to consider for the less senior positions, and not too interesting for challenging and responsible well paid positions.
3) As we grow into our middle ages we have a lot of commitments to take care of, but in careers that have not really got into mainstream, we get waylaid in terms of salaries, and with each passing year, we find that the people who make hiring decisions, tend to gloss over our resumes as being too old to consider for the less senior positions, and not too interesting for challenging and responsible well paid positions.
Come on! We all know that for about a few thousands working on SGD $4K a month (all esle being equal in terms of talent, knowledge, and capabilities) there will be only a handful who make it to the next level of SGD $ 7K during their remaining career years. I have begun to notice that too many youngsters are beig pushed up to jobs that we deserve, and with salaries that are just slightly more than ours. Which means the market is slowly pushing the $7K salaries down while taking undeserving candidtates to higher positions.
This organisational hiring Bypass Surgery is going to cost both those seeking employment and those hiring into a temporary high, whicle will then go on into a long shallow downturn which will be difficult to notice as it takes the organisations ever so slowly downwards.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Planning for Our Children: How far can we go and succeed
I am presently in the situation where my only child, my son is now 15 years old and in the eleventh grade of school.
He has before him a very vast array of choices to make, on the direction he wants to launch his life into for the next decade wherein he will achieve his educational qualifications that will characterize him in the eyes of his future employers, and determine his trajectory in professional life for the rest of his life.
It is a very big decision to take for a teen aged stuck-in-the middle mind. One awesome decision that can make or break his dreams. How well equipped is he in this humongous task?
I often ask myself this question. But in retrospect, I find him in an enviable position of having a great deal of information at his fingertips, knowledge of fields that did not even exist as possible career paths during my time, and of course parents who are equally well informed and capable of finding out what needs to be known. That puts him into the superleague straight off.
So to answer the question, I would vouch to say on a safe note that he is! As a matter of fact, as our children grow in the next several generations, much of the critical decisions will be taken by them on their own, and parents will be merely told of the outcome, probably the entire game of advising your children on issues will slowly cease altogether.
On the carreer choice we can only weigh in by giving peripheral decision critical information like;
1) Finances- whether we have the resources to support their basic goal in education
2) Sub-trees and branches of streams of choice: Being a doctor is fine but MBBS is not the right end of the story, whether to go on for surgery, radiology, Doctor of medicine(oncology etc.) and other new emerging career fields.
3) Once we find any gaps in our analysis compared to the children's ambitions, we now seek redressal by way of available financing options, alternate paths that either take less time, or are less expensive, or reduce the stress on the way etc.
All this should in my opinion be undertaken ideally the year before the critical uni applications are despatched. This gives us time to ponder our decisions, and look for new alternatives that previously were not visible in the ensuing year. The child also gets a full year to reflect on whether the choice made is well suited to one self.
I have attached here links that relate to these inportant stages and their related issues that can help reduce the tension during this greatly stressful period.
A) Guide to Grants available: Grants worldwide for Education!
B)Once having taken a Student Loan, how to get out of the perpetual cycle of debt:
Get out of Your Student Loan safely!
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Money on the Internet Tap.. Huhh?
New Money making methods on the web:
I came to know but dont really know how:
1) affiliate marketing
2) emoney-
3) blogging
4) website (markets) like ebay, amazon, etc.
I have been studying these for a month or so now, and have come to know that there are millions of people trying out these methods, of which only a few are actually making money at all.
However, I find that as an engineer, anyone with advanced internet skills can do this. As a matter of face, people that do not have any expertise often fall into the trap of internet "metors" that promise outstanding results without any real substantial base at all. They trap people into the field and get them half way thru', then they charge extras just when things begin to get clear to the gullible souls!
Well the gist of it all is :
A) create a blog
B) write up interesting content
C) link your blog to real products and services that are sold by other people, but have them displayed on your blog.
D) Setup a monetary connection to the goods and services you display
E) People normally charge as mentors in the range of $3000 to $10,000.
However, what you really need to do is very cheap and easy:
A'- Create a well thought site, with a definite vision of the range of ideas and related products that would suit your articles
B'- You will need to have access to a blog or a website of your own, so a domain registered for a year is needed, but not essential
C'- Go to vendor market places like Clickbank.com create your own account and select the relevant product that suits your site or blog. then copy the hyperlink provided for the offer, and paste it into your webite or blog.
D'- for every online viewer of your site or blog who visits the accompanying link, and purchase, they will provide a cut to your account on the site you registered with for the link. ( a crude version is in the end of my post here )
E'- Wait and watch your account money grow.
sounds very easy, but to begin with it is quite daunting, you have to grapple with various domain registerations, affiliate program memberships, and get up to speed on various website tweaking, masking, redirecting, and many similar tricks.
I will keep you posted on this monkey business soon as I hit the right buttons.
check back and see how I go!
Click Here!
I came to know but dont really know how:
1) affiliate marketing
2) emoney-
3) blogging
4) website (markets) like ebay, amazon, etc.
I have been studying these for a month or so now, and have come to know that there are millions of people trying out these methods, of which only a few are actually making money at all.
However, I find that as an engineer, anyone with advanced internet skills can do this. As a matter of face, people that do not have any expertise often fall into the trap of internet "metors" that promise outstanding results without any real substantial base at all. They trap people into the field and get them half way thru', then they charge extras just when things begin to get clear to the gullible souls!
Well the gist of it all is :
A) create a blog
B) write up interesting content
C) link your blog to real products and services that are sold by other people, but have them displayed on your blog.
D) Setup a monetary connection to the goods and services you display
E) People normally charge as mentors in the range of $3000 to $10,000.
However, what you really need to do is very cheap and easy:
A'- Create a well thought site, with a definite vision of the range of ideas and related products that would suit your articles
B'- You will need to have access to a blog or a website of your own, so a domain registered for a year is needed, but not essential
C'- Go to vendor market places like Clickbank.com create your own account and select the relevant product that suits your site or blog. then copy the hyperlink provided for the offer, and paste it into your webite or blog.
D'- for every online viewer of your site or blog who visits the accompanying link, and purchase, they will provide a cut to your account on the site you registered with for the link. ( a crude version is in the end of my post here )
E'- Wait and watch your account money grow.
sounds very easy, but to begin with it is quite daunting, you have to grapple with various domain registerations, affiliate program memberships, and get up to speed on various website tweaking, masking, redirecting, and many similar tricks.
I will keep you posted on this monkey business soon as I hit the right buttons.
check back and see how I go!
Click Here!
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Mantra of Success in Life
Let me forewarn you, people looking for a Forbes listing, please go away!
I am at a critical juncture of my life. Half of it has been spent creating a world for myself (am now 45 almost, so I am assuming a life span of about 90 hence the half) and am at the doorstep of the second half. I often wonder when I see articles that preach the ways to succeed in life saying:
"Define your goal
Make it qualitatively and quantitatively defined
Create a method to achieve
Do the processes to achieve using these methods
Look back at your success and enjoy!!!"
At least most of them end up with the above as the Jist of their advise.
Lets look at each point in isolation :
Define your goal-
How can a person define his goal in life? I am still seeking that one singular goal that I could be able to call the defining ambition of my life.
When I was 15 (that's when my brain became fit enough to think), I though becoming an engineer was The Goal.
Soon by the age of 30 I realized that the sweet smell of success was still missing. However, I was married and just about to be a father. My defining moment that would change the entire course of my life and philosophy was just about to enter my life, and my entire perception of life had already turned around on its head(..?).
My son has become my focus of all efforts for the last 15 years, I don't see the situation changing any time soon (next 10 years). When he will be 25, maybe, my definition of success will have to be refocussed to some other aspiration. Till then, his education, upbringing and his success are constantly consuming my entire intellectual capacity. (actually not only me but my wife too)
So is there really a single achievable goal?
Making a qualitative and quantitative defined goal of the one above:
As the fore mentioned lines were being typed I could already begin to smile, my success is not really a defined and well qualified one. It really is like a changing goal post situation, where every effort at the spur of the moment defines success or failure.
When you see a dear one happy, your instantaneous and immediate Goal is achieved.
When the opposite happens, you have failed miserably.
Create a method to achieve:
Well my take on this step is a bit warped. I think that we constantly move on the inertia of the previous move and make minor course corrections all then time, by which I mean to say " I DONT KNOW WHERE THE HECK I'M GOING" . But far from calling this a failure I think that is exactly what life needs us to do. If you do not swerve with the flow of the stream, life will topple you without your life-jacket on. I have tried to chart a rather staunch and diagonal path several times, which only met with failure (for a variety of reasons , all of which were not always me). So I take is as a wise experienced (Ahhem.. ) human, that I might be correct in taking such an approach.
However, I do feel much more can be done with support from others around you who can make the vital difference in the direction of the small correction being closer to where it should have been.
Processes:
I feel that life itself is a process, and trying to alter the process in any way will only bring either huge success or huge failure, a stiff choice to make. Those who advise on following a process and talk from a Status of success, probably hit the first by random probability, not by choice!! ( sour grapes you may be thinking).
But sheer numbers are evidence that success comes to only a few in a million. Do you really think that all the others are idiots and clueless? I don't think so. After all there are very few slots to be occupied at the top so ..
Look Back at your success and be happy:
This is one of the dictum that I fully agree about, only that my defined success is made up of so many small and really "person dependent" choices. I have seen happiness when my family smiled with me, I have seen happiness when a puppy licked my face, I have seen happiness when my child rambled his first words we can call language...
There are just too many successes to list down.
In verdict, I have been successful! in a grand way that too!
But my worries are now in the coming half of my life. I only hope wisdom and divine grace fill this half too with the same dignity and happiness I have enjoyed so far.
Those who have read, please post in your comments and please share your thoughts for :
Success is not a Financial / Social Order / Materialistic or Physical achievement. It is but a magical moment of our lives that make it worth all the effort, it can happen every day, or once in a month, can be intense or a simple quiver or joy.
I am at a critical juncture of my life. Half of it has been spent creating a world for myself (am now 45 almost, so I am assuming a life span of about 90 hence the half) and am at the doorstep of the second half. I often wonder when I see articles that preach the ways to succeed in life saying:
"Define your goal
Make it qualitatively and quantitatively defined
Create a method to achieve
Do the processes to achieve using these methods
Look back at your success and enjoy!!!"
At least most of them end up with the above as the Jist of their advise.
Lets look at each point in isolation :
Define your goal-
How can a person define his goal in life? I am still seeking that one singular goal that I could be able to call the defining ambition of my life.
When I was 15 (that's when my brain became fit enough to think), I though becoming an engineer was The Goal.
Soon by the age of 30 I realized that the sweet smell of success was still missing. However, I was married and just about to be a father. My defining moment that would change the entire course of my life and philosophy was just about to enter my life, and my entire perception of life had already turned around on its head(..?).
My son has become my focus of all efforts for the last 15 years, I don't see the situation changing any time soon (next 10 years). When he will be 25, maybe, my definition of success will have to be refocussed to some other aspiration. Till then, his education, upbringing and his success are constantly consuming my entire intellectual capacity. (actually not only me but my wife too)
So is there really a single achievable goal?
Making a qualitative and quantitative defined goal of the one above:
As the fore mentioned lines were being typed I could already begin to smile, my success is not really a defined and well qualified one. It really is like a changing goal post situation, where every effort at the spur of the moment defines success or failure.
When you see a dear one happy, your instantaneous and immediate Goal is achieved.
When the opposite happens, you have failed miserably.
Create a method to achieve:
Well my take on this step is a bit warped. I think that we constantly move on the inertia of the previous move and make minor course corrections all then time, by which I mean to say " I DONT KNOW WHERE THE HECK I'M GOING" . But far from calling this a failure I think that is exactly what life needs us to do. If you do not swerve with the flow of the stream, life will topple you without your life-jacket on. I have tried to chart a rather staunch and diagonal path several times, which only met with failure (for a variety of reasons , all of which were not always me). So I take is as a wise experienced (Ahhem.. ) human, that I might be correct in taking such an approach.
However, I do feel much more can be done with support from others around you who can make the vital difference in the direction of the small correction being closer to where it should have been.
Processes:
I feel that life itself is a process, and trying to alter the process in any way will only bring either huge success or huge failure, a stiff choice to make. Those who advise on following a process and talk from a Status of success, probably hit the first by random probability, not by choice!! ( sour grapes you may be thinking).
But sheer numbers are evidence that success comes to only a few in a million. Do you really think that all the others are idiots and clueless? I don't think so. After all there are very few slots to be occupied at the top so ..
Look Back at your success and be happy:
This is one of the dictum that I fully agree about, only that my defined success is made up of so many small and really "person dependent" choices. I have seen happiness when my family smiled with me, I have seen happiness when a puppy licked my face, I have seen happiness when my child rambled his first words we can call language...
There are just too many successes to list down.
In verdict, I have been successful! in a grand way that too!
But my worries are now in the coming half of my life. I only hope wisdom and divine grace fill this half too with the same dignity and happiness I have enjoyed so far.
Those who have read, please post in your comments and please share your thoughts for :
Success is not a Financial / Social Order / Materialistic or Physical achievement. It is but a magical moment of our lives that make it worth all the effort, it can happen every day, or once in a month, can be intense or a simple quiver or joy.
Friday, May 25, 2012
Wall-E reality?
Several things are turning around in my head in recent developments.
1) The successful launch of the private venture Sapce Ship to the ISS:
In a way, things are going well till this point in time. What sends shudders down my spine is the prospect of such technology (which till recently was only in hands of legitimate and responsible governments) falling into the hands of greedy business behemoths.
It reminds me of the cute animated film: "Wall-E", where the story stretches the imaginated scenerio of how humans can venture to deep space in wait for Earth to become Habitable centuries after it degenrates into a Dingy polluted hell.
2) In a related development- the official incorporation of a space Dredging Corporation for Space Mining:
I know there are entire planets made of Diamonds in space (we are told) and that many of the exotic minerals found after great and costly mining and purification on earth are simply found in plenty on space rocks.
However, what I dont understand is who owns the universe? Are we slowly going to sell materials brought from space? Is wealth being created from free and natural resources which till now were untapped? Is this the beginging of the New Gold Rush?
The implications on Humanities greed are too scary to mention. Remember what happens in the name of resource hunting on earths now extinct Tribes, forests, natural ecosystems ....? We currently dont know the side effects of these small steps of Man, and Big leaps of Mankind- untethered!
3) Back to my favourite domain- tech gadgets.
I saw an ad on a G+ posting for the Samsung smart TV, where you interact with the TV by gestures, no remotes or buttons. That would be a lovely feature on all arefacts that amuse us in the living room today.
Another interesting tech nugget was the new hands-free computing interface by Leap Motion. Those few who still dont know do google it up. Its worth the time.
Hope to bring you up to speed on Whats UP and Down soon.
1) The successful launch of the private venture Sapce Ship to the ISS:
In a way, things are going well till this point in time. What sends shudders down my spine is the prospect of such technology (which till recently was only in hands of legitimate and responsible governments) falling into the hands of greedy business behemoths.
It reminds me of the cute animated film: "Wall-E", where the story stretches the imaginated scenerio of how humans can venture to deep space in wait for Earth to become Habitable centuries after it degenrates into a Dingy polluted hell.
2) In a related development- the official incorporation of a space Dredging Corporation for Space Mining:
I know there are entire planets made of Diamonds in space (we are told) and that many of the exotic minerals found after great and costly mining and purification on earth are simply found in plenty on space rocks.
However, what I dont understand is who owns the universe? Are we slowly going to sell materials brought from space? Is wealth being created from free and natural resources which till now were untapped? Is this the beginging of the New Gold Rush?
The implications on Humanities greed are too scary to mention. Remember what happens in the name of resource hunting on earths now extinct Tribes, forests, natural ecosystems ....? We currently dont know the side effects of these small steps of Man, and Big leaps of Mankind- untethered!
3) Back to my favourite domain- tech gadgets.
I saw an ad on a G+ posting for the Samsung smart TV, where you interact with the TV by gestures, no remotes or buttons. That would be a lovely feature on all arefacts that amuse us in the living room today.
Another interesting tech nugget was the new hands-free computing interface by Leap Motion. Those few who still dont know do google it up. Its worth the time.
Hope to bring you up to speed on Whats UP and Down soon.
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