Blog - Visions of Future
A Spiritual and Technological PerspectiveAre we in the midst of exponential growth? Where are we headed?
I plan to write couple of futuristic articles, so decided to start with basic premise that has been guiding my thought process. - We are in the midst of exponential growth. In fact we have always been, since the time we evolved to be called humans. The reason the...
Comments on – “How to Make a Mind” by Ray Kurzweil
I recently added following comments here on the article "How to Make a Mind" by Ray Kurzweil The article "How to Make a Mind" by Ray Kurzweil is very comprehensive and thought provoking. However, it is not clear whether what is being talked of is near term (couple of...
Getting to the core of Virtual Reality
On secondlife.com you can create identity of your choice, visit any number of virtual destinations, perform super human tasks like flying, have interaction with other virtual beings and perform many other similar tasks. Basically you imagine who you want to be, whom...
My humble attempt at humor – On TV Soap Madness
If you don’t watch Indian Zee tv serials you are lucky. This post is for the rest of us. Please bear with my language though, I don’t have much experience writing humor. First, if you indeed are from the lucky ones who don’t watch Zee, STOP. The rest of the writing in...
Swamiji
(This story was written by me in September, 2004) Right from childhood, Swamiji had read all religious books, renounced the world and spent his life preaching. His believed that religion can’t be taught to poor as they are too busy worrying about food and hunger. So...
Implications of Mind Reading Technologies – A Rational View
My Comments on the article "100% Honest, Transparency, Disclosure - is this the future that we want?", related to the futuristic scenario when mind reading technologies become available. Submitted by Neeraj Mital (not verified) on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 8:24am. The article...
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