T.H.I.N.K again!

To think has become a problem for most of us. We have calculators doing our math, pda’s and smart phones that manage our contacts and phone numbers, electronic chips that drive our cars and ‘intellisense’ machines that do the wash. All this is supposed to help us in our day to day ‘tasks’.
Just finished reading an article on the next big 5 from IBM which will revolutionize the way people live in the next 5 years. Impressive! Also a lot of consequences to be faced with in the days to come.
Most of the products and technologies that IBM is proposing to develop / are already under development are outstanding. We will have an internet we can talk to, an application that will predict ur entire life’s health, digital shopping assistants which will sell stuff to u online while u check out items to shop for and finally a ‘search’ function that keeps track of all your moves everyday so that u won’t forget to remember sth ,or forget anything anymore . Impressive right. Right…
There is no escaping the fact that our lives are completely dependent on gadgets (I can’t live without my laptop and cell phone), but down the line, it’s not only going to be us who will be using these new technologies, but also the future generations.
Dependency should not go to such a level where we don’t control what and how machines think, when we are allowing ourselves to let machines make decisions for us it should not enter every sphere of life.
We write the code ,we develop the software’s and we induce the bugs, fine as a developer one actually has to put in a lot of thought in order to develop such a program , but the end user just uses it. His brain is being forced not to think much. I don’t remember half of the phone numbers on my cell, I don’t even bother writing them down somewhere, cause I have a ‘backup’ on my laptop. Don’t u feel that people are going to just stop thinking sometime in the future? When we are placing so many of our thoughts into doing what machines ask us to do, don’t u think we could also be controlled?
We already have GPS systems telling us the way. if the GPS system was tampered with or has a bug in it ,it will lead u to the wrong places ,and then u won’t be mentally equipped to think out a solution because ur mind is not trained to think and make decisions ,but it’s just dependent on the technology to make those decisions for you.
I have nothing against advancements in the field of technology, but it’s just that the products people come up with ,even though are useful to some ,I just feel that mans natural ability to think and make decisions will become a major task to perform(maybe it can even be an Olympic event).
The children of the future will just be puppets in the hands of technology, they won’t be able to make a simple decision on which candy bar they would want , they might just ask the comp to figure out the statistics that make that particular candy bar good enough ,by searching through blog entries and chemical analysis files, with the taste responses survey made in the 19th century and finally end up eating something else.
Making that decision was a piece of cake. right?

Arrrrrrr.......--------------The Pirates are Here

We have all seen them in movies, heard about them in stories and read about them in books. I for one didn’t expect them to exist in this century.
The recent attack on ships by pirates in the gulf of Eden surprises me. In an age where Indians are launching satellites and landing on moons, in an age where technology has always made it a point to redefine itself in more ways than one, in an age where nothing is impossible (Adidas:P) I least expected some shitty pirates with lousy weapons to scare nations more powerful and technologically more equipped to feel the heat.
It just shows us that there are gaping loopholes in the things we take for granted. We always thought nothing could happen in the seas where we have navy ships from all over the world patrolling their territories. Well something must be wrong cause there have already been many hijackings in the same area. For the first time India has stepped up and actually surprised me by acting fast and tackling this problem, are the other countries sleeping? or are they waiting for something worse to happen.
Recently when one of the ships carrying some Indian crew was hijacked , a ransom was paid to the tune of a few millions(really cheap!), apparently that’s what the press releases stated, that the amount was undisclosed , this raises a few questions in my already full head, what is going to be done with all that ransom money, will it be used to fund more activities of hijacking in the seas ,and maybe even move the business into foreign waters ,where they can hijack more ships and get more money?
The other serious question that comes to my head is what if this is just the tip of the iceberg, what if this money is used to organize terrorist activities in various countries all over the world?
The irony of this situation is we are paying for them to do all this shit. I guess we just take a lot of things for granted, now that the Indian navy is pulling off heroic rescues and blasting the pirate ships out of the ocean, I won’t be surprised if India receives threats from the Somalians soon. Not that we have enough problems on our hands already.
The problem with this world is people don’t react unless something pricks them hard enough for them to notice that there is a problem.
looking at the present scenario ,i guess we all have really thick skins.

CHANGE is what the world needs.

It might not have come as a surprise to many of us that Barack Obama has won the elections to be the first ever African American president of the united states, but it did surprise me to know that john McCain also managed to get a few votes. Which actually tells us that this man did try to be the next president of the United States and actually convinced people to vote for him :).
Considering now that the most expensive election campaign in the United States ever to take place is over, it now places a huge burden on Obama to actually walk the talk. If statistics are to be taken into consideration, Obama’s rise in popularity had come as soon as the economic crisis hit the United States and the world.
This shows that all his talk about change needs to be put into action. His policies on improving the economic crisis are drastic and need a major change in the existing system, the war with Iraq needs a major overhaul and the current terrorist situation needs a firm stand, the hope that he has given the world will be put to the test.
What needs to be done right now, is very crucial for the entire economy of the world. Mr. Obama has found himself with quite a handful as soon as he takes the position of president. The world might also see a friendlier USA in the next year.
A quote from Mr. Obama’s speech
“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America -- I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," he said. Let’s just hope we All get there soon.
India’s major concerns are also at stake, the recent nuclear deal with the USA might now be compromised, it still waits to be seen how Mr. Obama’s ideas and policies on outsourcing will affect the growing IT industry in India.
This year has been one of the worst that the world have ever experienced with both man-made and natural calamities (also man-made), we did see some major setbacks and fallout's, and now we have placed our faith in the hands of one man who might just Change everything , maybe that’s what the world needs after all ,a makeover!

one huge popularity contest for the WORLD!

I don’t care who wins the usa elections ,as long as the winner makes history and actually does something to change the present:)

both of the compretiors have done some really outstanding advertising for their respective campaigns.and one of them really deserves to win .

why does this election hold the fate of the world?

its because we have seen some brilliant decisions made by president bush in his time ,and we were really impressed(quote: "indian's love u MR BUSH"-Manmohan SINGH) .so hopefully AMERICANS will vote for the right person who actually can do rather than talk.

i recently read in a newspaper that most of the americans are actually going back to the usa from india just to vote.i wonder why indian's in america dont do that when elections are on in india.maybe because it dosent matter who gets elected in india ,things wont change anyways:P.

we cannot predict who will win the ongoing election in the usa,but hopefully we will really witness an historic change in this time of crisis in the world .

american voters are a very unpredictive lot.but thats basically because they prefer not to bother too much about the world ,even though most of the countries are dependent on the outcome.

well lets all hope the best man wins ,but on a more personal note,does it really make a difference ?

POP! THATS ENOUGH!!!

One more year, one more festival, a tank full of plaster of Paris, garlands and basically a lot of trash. All those people who are environmentally conscious will have fought the war but have lost the battle, if u still don’t know what I am talking abt? its the immersion that will soon take place in tank bund.
Centuries has passed ,but no one has come up with a solution to this problem. Fine we all love our dear lord ganesh and would want to do the immersion in great style and pomp, but at what cost. Screwing up the environment and thinking that nothing is going to happen is ignoring the hugeeee problem people. We cant obviously place our faith in the so called government, cause evey year they say sth and don’t stick up to what they say. So this problem will never end until and unless we the people of Hyderabad do something abt it. Cleaning up the tank bund is a mammoth task. But we all need to realize the fact that it’s the only thing close to a water body that we’ve got and its out sole responsibility to try and protect it with whatever power we possess. So clay ganeshas ur time has come to shine. And no offence to the p.o.p ones ,but even though we love u ,it might lead to dangerous situations. So lets all say “P.O.P! that’s enough!

i phone is now i loan! :)

Yes people ,guess what? Airtel recently announced that the much publicized and scarcely available I phone is going to be given to prospective buyers on emi basis( just kidding).
ok, I don’t know what’s wrong here I mean , first of all u get a phone , as of my current knowledge is available for as much as 8grand in the usa, and sell it here for as little as 31grand and they actually expect people to literally buy it in bulk? Either the cellular companies are living in a false reality called “moolah land” or we are actually loaded ! well jokes apart ,the I phone is being given on a monthy emi basis for 3009rs per month for one year,so for all those who really want a touch screen phone with no message forwarding option please make airtel happy. Well forget the I phone for a sec, its not that great at all, but I should give credit to nokia for making a really cool e71. which has everything except a touch screen ,now we cant get too touchy on that , can we?

cant get enough of rock on? watch the movie,but please dont act like a wannabe rockstar!

well people ,it looks like bollywood finally has a winner in the debut section dosent it.Farhan akthar with his first release seems to do really well .well compliments apart to the movie "rock on", it is a good movie and something really authentic and different .Atleast we dont have pritam copy the music from say rolling stones or metallica.If that really happened we would call that movie "copy on" or sth like that.But stupid jokes apart,the one question that is on my mind is whats wrong with the people or i should say "youth" of hyderabad.its one thing going to watch rock on at the nearest theatre near your place ,but another thing looking at all the poeple dressed up like they were in the movie.god knows doing what cause i definitely didnt see them even in the crowds that were present in the movie! PEOPLE if u do come across whatever is written here ,please we dont dress up as batman or superman to go watch the movie when it releases.so please the main objective of ur life is to be yourself. we have enough people trying to be something they are not .moral of the story- dont be a wannabe but want to be something different.unlike all our bollywood movies and their songs.

Have your prayers been answerd yet?

Well considering we didnt have such a good start to the rainy season, i guess now things look damn good, dont they? sometime back people prayed their asses off for rain ,and those were the times we didnt have a single drop fall from the sky other than peoples mouths(corny! i know).But now we see soo much rain sometimes i feel "man please enough".
guess we prayed for good rains ,but who the hell prayed for a good government? as soon as the first spell of rain has fallen on our citys potless roads and flawless drainage system we saw how much damage it can cause to life itself.People have died .half of the city is under drainwater .our cars are screwed .our houses abandoned.and much much more .so for all the people who did a lot of yagnas and prayers .please we have had enough .let nature take its course ,the last thing we would want to interfere with our lives is some divine intervention!