❃ Thoughts worth sharing
Little did Raymond Tomlinson, a computer engineer in 1971 from Cambridge, Massachusetts knew that his first text message ‘QWERTYUIOP’ from one computer to another sitting side by side, travelling via a network of computers would change the way the world would communicate in future.
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I have been intrigued by this couplet penned by an anonymous 17th-century poet from the Indian subcontinent. Although it reminds me of my late father, it’s beyond all relationships, and it’s as relevant today as would have been then.
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“Mr.Watson, come here, I want to see you.” those were the few words by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson. It was through a heavy and wired instrument. It lacked even the most basic features that are not even considered features anymore, simply speaking there is no comparison to the smart and sophisticated devices from today, yet, its capabilities is regarded as one of the critical milestones in human advancement.
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Everyone has secrets. I am not eluding to the dark and wicked ones, but those that we never utter to save ourselves from pain. Then there are some we keep safe to protect others; at least we think that would save them.
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History always repeats itself. Sadly we often do not learn from it. Not because we arrogantly ignore it, but history has an advantage of painting the big picture after the fact, which is often not visible in the given present time. History is full of leaders who indeed moved the world forward and of those who brought the world to its knee. Countless leaders once revered were later abandoned or worse slain by their followers.
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Over 500 hundred years ago in 1519 Hernando Cortez, the Spanish captain and explorer decided to seize the Aztecs, a mighty empire that had been around for thousands of years. Cortez took his soldiers and sailors and sailed south. Upon landing his fleet of ships on the shores of the Yucatan, the captain ordered his men to burn their own ships.
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I had this nagging fear that one day I would lose all our family memories imprinted on paper, and as part of my project to immortalize every paper documents covering our mortal lives, I recently got our entire collection of print photos digitized.
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Xerox. Kodak. Nokia. What do these names have in common? Once a dominant player in their respective industry now remains iconic examples of how the mighty falls. They were all once hugely successful companies that failed to adapt, or was it?
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We have entered the age of an unprecedented shift in almost every economy that touches our lives. The changes now range from being deceptive initially to outright disruptive rapidly. The waves are affecting us in the way never seen before.
Read time: 1 min. Continue reading “Open Banking is coming soon | New Age Series”
Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater, an investment firm made a 30 min video explaining how the economy works. I watched this video a couple of years ago to explain quickly to my kids the workings of the world’s economy assuming I knew much of it already. I was surprised how much more I learned in 30 min.
Watch time: 30 min — worth your time.
