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.
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