Intelligent living

How wonderful would it be if life would become more intelligent than what it is today? Here is a short imaginary story of how will it be..
My friend comes to my house to visit me. He sends me a message asking me to open the door. I am lying on the bed lazily watching videos on my mobile. Now I don't want to get up and open the door. What do I do?
I access home app in my super smart mobile phone which is connected to my home control super computer which is again seamlessly connected to all appliances and fittings of the house, the car, the wall, the bike, the office super computer and lastly the internet. Welcome to the world of super seamless connectivity.
The home app in my mobile shows authenticated symbol which means the small video camera inside the front door has taken an image of my friends face and iris, authenticated it as genuine.

I now press open door app in my mobile, the door automatically opens and my friend walks in. The entire process has taken just 3 seconds far lesser than what it would take for me to get up and open the door. I decide to get up now and put on my intelligent shirt and meet my friend.
The shirt is smart shirt as it is made of nano materials. It is designed with nano technology which ensures the material can never attract dust or bacteria so it never needs any washing. Of course it has intelligent minute chips and sensors that increase or decrease the flow of air through the fabric with touch of finger which means the same can be used in both summer and winter.
Just like my mobile which measure the pulse rate dynamically when I hold it, the clothings heat sensors monitor my body temperature and heart rate dynamically.
It continously updates the home computer on real time basis which then takes a decision to inform my parents or my doctor about it based on degree and magnitude.
As I walk out of the room, the fan and light gets switched off automatically. How? The motion detector and Rfid technology work in tandem to update the status that the room is empty to the control computer.
The home computer is updated in realtime basis which automatically gives switch off command to fan and light of the room. Everything happens in matter of 2 seconds because of power of super computing.
"Let's watch tv" I said. But there is no tv in the hall to switch on. I access watch tv app from my phone which automatically dims the light and switches on the side of the wall which doubles up as a very large lcd projecter tv. The wall has inbuilt hard silicon material embeded so it can also act as tv when needed.
The wall being connected to the home super computer knows my favourite channels and arranges them in the order of usage frequency. Ofcourse tv doesn't need a remote, my phone can control it too. Ofcourse all my favourite movies and videos are downloaded automatically and continously to the home computer.
Now we plan to go out somewhere. I go out and access "leave home app" and the phone connects to computer which commands to switch off all lights and lock all doors and windows automatically.
I sit inside the car and want to know how long will it take to reach the hotel. I press calculate time app and select destination.
The cars computer accesses the traffic data through the central traffic control computer, measures the average speed of the moving cars along the road which we are about to go it then measures the normal speed with which we travel usually and returns a figure 43 mins 28 seconds.
This figure changes rapidly as density of traffic and its speed change is updated on real time basis.
Of course no one drives a car these days that is stupid,old fashioned and dumb. We just enter the destination and select speed and recline in the car sofa while the computer drives the car to the destination.
I now access the hotels super computer through "eat easy app" and select our table and menus so that we don't have to wait for food.
I have always admired the way this hotel cooks its food. The food is made with addition of nano materials which ensures that when the food is chewed it maximises the taste on the tongue by vigorously exciting the taste buds and increasing its taste signalling efficiency to the brain.
Therefore the food would taste atleast 10 times tastier than the same food cooked without these nano materials.
I now order for diet food. The diet food is made with another set of special nanomaterial that ensures that it is digested but never aborbed by the body. Now what is the advantage? All fat people like me love this nano material coated food because on one hand it retains and maximises the taste on tongue and on the other hand it gets digested but not absorbed by the villi.
Which means one can eat tons of mc donald cheese burger and drink gallons of fatty ice cream milk shake without worrying about calories.
WOW. Food with absolutely zero calories. What an invention of man!
That was a fantastic dinner. I now have to pay the bill. Ofcourse not. When I booked the table and ordered food my account was debited in realtime through payment gateway.
The home control computer sends me a message that my parents are returning home from office and would reach exactly in 21 mins 12 seconds.
I need to reach home before that. I select fast button and recline in the car and car zoomes to my home.
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Letter to a Conceited Ape

Dear Ape,

I address you as an Ape because that is exactly what you are.  

Don’t be shocked.  Don’t be surprised.

I repeat "You are an Ape".  Nothing that you do will change this simple fact.  You are the fifth Ape, the direct descendant of the great ape family that originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago and reached behavioural modernity around 50,000 years ago. 

 

We know this because we have mountains and mountains of evidence in the form of fossils, DNA study, geological distribution study and Radio carbon dating to prove your animal and Ape origin.

But there is something special about you that set you apart from the rest of your Ape family.  

You are the smartest and the most intelligent Ape on this planet.

But this intelligence has also given you deep conceit, staggering hypocrisy and an amazing arrogance. 

You now claim that you are not an animal.  That you are not a product of evolution that generated a million forms of lives on this planet.  That you are not created by the physical and purposeless laws of nature that govern the universe.  You have disowned your own family “The great Ape family of Africa”.

You may claim that you are an absolutely divine creature and that you have descended from the heaven with a divine, celestial purpose and have a spiritual connection with your creator.  

But nothing that you can imagine will belie the simple truth that you have a TAIL BONE left behind your back like the other Apes, a proof of your animal origin.

You cannot ever deny the truth that your DNA matches with that of your nearest animal cousin the Chimpanzee to the extent of 98 percent.  This only means you and your cousin are lineal descendent of the great Ape family.  You cannot ever deny that you have appendix inside your stomach which is used by all apes to digest raw leaves and raw plants.  Of course you don’t have any use for it now because you are no longer a raw leaf eater.  There are million other evidences like these but many conceited apes amongst you will never agree.

So I shall now address your hypocrisy and arrogance one by one:

On the Ultimate Purpose of Life:

There has been enough discussion in your Ape community about the ultimate purpose of your Ape life.  I want to ask you one question.  Why do you think your Ape life should have a purpose? You Conceited Ape “Do you even bother to ask whether Chimpanzees your nearest cousin have a purpose of existence?” Do you bother to ask whether your farther cousin the baboon has a purpose of existence?

Because you do everything in your life with a purpose doesn’t mean that nature should follow the same.  Why do you expect the physical laws of nature to have Purpose? Why don’t you understand that the laws of nature are purposeless? Does the life of a butterfly have a purpose? Do plants and trees that grow around you have a purpose? Do incessant waves of the oceans have a purpose? Then why should your life alone have a divine purpose?

Of course you apes can add purpose artificially like saying that “The life of a colourful butterfly gives happiness to people around it”.  But then that is an artificial attribution of purpose by your Ape brain not the real purpose of its existence which is purposeless.

On Saving the Planet:

You Apes have deep conceit to spread awareness regarding saving the planet earth.

“Save the Planet”… What a conceit!

You are not powerful enough to seriously affect the planet. What you are trying to save is a hypothetical image of what you think the planet should be! The planet has survived traumas many billions of times of greater than what you can ever cause.  The planet has been through a lot worse things than you can even imagine.  

It has been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles…hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages…And you apes think some plastic bags, and some aluminium cans are going to make a difference?

The planet is fine. Compared to you apes, the planet is doing great.  It has been here four and a half billion years.   You have been here, what, a two hundred thousand? And you have been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years.

Two hundred years versus four and a half billion and you have the CONCEIT to think that somehow you are a threat? That you apes are going to destroy the beautiful little blue-green ball that’s just a-floating around the sun? You apes are amazingly conceited.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after you are gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because it is a self-correcting system.  The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into its system without any prejudice.

The Hidden agenda of Libyan War

Napolean Bonaparte once remarked "What is History but a fable mutually agreed upon". History is a beautiful fable written by man. Ofcourse all History is written by victors, therefore the victors have to be naturally on the side of righteousness and truth while the losers should always stand for all that is unjust and evil.

Such is the solemn veracity of reported history that plays itself before the world stage that it can be rightly called as some one put it "one damn thing after another".

In this article I shall try to explore one such truth of history that is unfolding before our own eyes even as I type this article. This is a story of how economic agendas blinds the greatest of nations and makes it a caricature and an opportunistic puppet of self interest and greed.

Consider this story now. One dictator rules a nation for over 30 years, he is well recognised by the world community as the true representative of its people in so far as he gives speeches before the united nations and signs sovereign agreements on behalf of his country. However being from military background he is inclined towards agression. He commits many acts of agression for full 30 years of his rule and violates human rights of civilians in all possible manner.

Nobody seems to care about how many people he has butchered in the last 30 years of his rule. After all, all sovereign nations are governed by UN charter isn't it. How can other nations interfere into the internal problems of
another sovereign nation?

The western powers are overwhelmed at this celebrated dictator and even invite him for a tour of their countries. Ofcourse their interests are directed by oil this dictator would provide them with. The UK falls head over heals and the one of the most prestigous university in uk aka the prestigious london school of economics gives his son a phd and trains many of his staffs and most graciously accepts a small donation of millions of pounds.

The french government provides him with huge cache of weapons and tanks in return for his liquid gold and so does the uk government. The US is pretty neutral as it has already fully tamed its own oil provider aka saudi arabia. It keeps friendship still.

Suddenly this dictator turns a little more aggressive he starts supporting the irish rebels in ireland who seek independent nation to the ire of the uk govt. The relationship with the french also turns a little sour after the dictator signs weapon purchase agreements from russia as it is cost effective.

Now arrives the year 2011, suddenly some educated youths of libya start protesting in the streets against the dictator. While under normal circumstances such a protest has no impact, the advent of social networking and mass media ensures that this information is spread across the world.

The russians are worried whether they will get paid for all the weapon contracts and weapon delivery they have made. The uk and france are looking for a new oil supplier as us has increased its oil intake from saudi and russian oil is becoming costly as it is being consumed by energy hungry economy of china and growing domestic demand of russia.

What better way to secure oil from the largest oil rich nation in africa than to support the democratic aspiration of people of libya and support their legitimate cause of freedom struggle?

Isn't it the moral duty of every right thinking nation to support the right of people to represent themselves in its own state? Of course the precondition is that it should be an oil rich or resource rich nation for west to support them.

Murderous regime of kings and dictators have no legitamacy to rule (unless they supply you lots of oil in return like saudi and others).

Ofcourse democratic aspiration of people of swaziland, people of ivory coast or host of other african nations or arab nations can wait for some more time till we finish off with the democratic aspirations of resource rich nations first.

The united nations passes resolution sanctioning no fly zone over libya because its people are being killed by a murderous regime. Russia abstains from voting and says it regrets military action in libya. Of course russia you have reasons to regret if the old dictators regime is toppled who will pay you the balance money for your weapon contracts?

You did all you could to stop the military action and now in final show of solidarity with the dictator you issue a regret statement saying that its libyas internal problem they should sort it out. But did you think that way when you attacked your neighbour Georgia? Perhaps it was your internal problem then.

The uk and france are overzealous to settle their old scores and also find a new supplier of oil for the euro nations. The only problem they could face is that they would be fighting mostly their own technologies and weapons.

The Us is slow because it doesn't need libya as of now. Saudi oil is sufficient. All weapons supplied to saudi king will obviously be used for defense of saudi nation and not on its populace if there is a riot. Even if it does happen, it is an internal problem of a sovereign nation which another nation cannot interfere as per un charter unless that nation happens to be our enemy or possessing weapons of mass destruction.

The saudi king recently sends his troops to yemen and those troops shot down democracy protestor with american guns. But then american guns in the hands of nato also protect democracy protestors in libya.

Adam smith mentions in his book "The wealth of nations" about the invisible hand of self interest that moves the world of economics. In similar manner I would say that it is the invisible hand of greed and opportunism that moves sovereign nations and guides all of their actions whether at war or peace.

Therefore Every word uttered from the mouth of these so called great leaders smells of hypocrisy. Every deed a proof of greed
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My Poem

Today i found an old piece of paper in my cupboard, i realised it had a poem which i had written in 2006.  I felt exhilarated to find my poem and i now share this with the readers of my blog.

The poem is Titled "The Patriot - A Tribute to Indian Army".  The poem is self explanatory written with the simplest words.  Please post a comment on what you feel about it.

“It’s the marriage of my son” she said

He is coming home this week

Show me a girl with moonlike face

A Princess most beautiful i seek

Let her face be bright and glow be fair

Two rosy lips and shining hair

A heart like water with love and care

Like a fairy like a dream beyond compare

Let her voice be sweet when she sings

As sweet as the fruits of the early spring

Sweeter than the melodies a nightingale brings

“Three more days for my brother to come”

Seventy two hours so long and tall

Why are mornings so slow and dull?

And the night doesn’t seem to fall?

“I will bring him tasty fruits and sweets” she said

I know his favourites all

Four years wait and three more days

Mr Time, will you please not crawl?

“My son, my lovely son will be here”

Said father with thoughtful pride

I will hug, kiss and pamper my son

After four years my love can’t hide.

And when I hold my son’s hand in his wedding

And hand him his beautiful bride

All tears and sorrows of my life will be dried

And soul will be gratified

Fragrance, Fragrance in the air…

And the Nature looks so fresh and sweet

Finally the day arrives with colour and light

And the Heavens seem beneath their feet

And the home is filled with thrills and joys

And the little sisters face looks so bright

And the father’s heart is full of delight

And the mother’s dreams are at its height

In far off land a soldier is killed

By Naxal bullets in an ambush unfair

His body is cut and strewn around

Thrown for dogs to eat and stare

When his comrades returned after night fall

Some pieces of flesh was left of all

Gathered in coffin too small and light

A moment so tragic a patriot’s plight

The father now waits in station for train

Four hours before its time

Little does he know that fate holds Pain

Perhaps his love was his only crime.

Appears a soldier with a coffin and a cold silence

There are silent meanings to words unspoken

Can words describe the father’s pain?

The pain of a heart that is broken.

Will time ever heal the parent’s grief?

Too big for old hearts to bear

Or will you convey the news to his little sister

Who is still blissfully unaware?

Failure of Imagination

Which is the greatest and most devastating of all failures that haunt the mankind ?
If the list is drawn, the top slot would always be occupied by failure of imagination. But why is this a failure in the first place? How can the act of not imagining something be regarded as a failure? These are questions that must now be answered.
History of the world is a solemn testimony to the truth of this statement. What exactly happened on september 11, 2001? A failure to imagine that aeroplanes can be hijacked and used as guided missiles to destroy buildings. Result was mass devastation of life and property and unwanted war on an ill fated nation.
And Why did the Titanic sink? Iceberg? Oh no not iceberg. The major reason it sunk was failure of its design. The designers of titanic failed to imagine that a ship could hit icebergs in the atlantic ocean and so they didn't use thicker steel body as it is used in the ships of today. A ship shouldn't be made of so a light a metal that can cause a hole on collision with an iceberg.
Why did the chernobyl nuclear disaster occur? Why did we have bhopal gas tragedy? What was the true cause of 26/11 tragedy?.
Some designer of boiler plant failed to imagine that water pipes can get clogged by usage and didn't put the safety valve in the design causing bhopal gas tragedy. Somewhere else some people who were the law enforcement agency couldn't imagine that terrorist could take easier sea route to mumbai for attack.
We now realise that Failure of imagination is disastrous. Einstein had said imagination is more important than knowledge.
This is true because all Knowledge is the effect and result of imagination as imagination is the key to all knowledge. Without it there is no life no civilization and no possibily of humanity.
Every object that we use in our life is a result of some ones imagination. Just look at a simple object like a chair. The chair was created in some ones mind used by him many times to sit on it in his mind. He could feel his balance on all the four legs of the chair in his mind. And then it was created in physical form. All physical objects in this world are nothing but mental images of man looked from that angle.
Having understood the importance of imagination and the devastating effect of its failure one should also note that there is no alternative to it.
Imagination is the highest form of human intelligence. So it should become a seperate discipline neutral of all subjective knowledge. The ability to imagine must be exploited to the fullest extent possible by special training to the mind.
Imagination is the key to all inventions and progress.  Imagination is life.