Was reading in every news site and blogs about Apple iPad. Everyone is talking about how it is a game changer, a revolution in publishing industry. Few clips on you tube and you know Apple is going to change how we read magazines and books...the same way they changed the way we listen to music.
But before you put a $ sign in the debit column for this gadget...hold on and zoom on to the old giant 'Microsoft' and it's upcoming gadget 'Courier'. For last few years, Microsoft is loosing it to Google and Apple. But, after all they are sitting on a huge cash and with a lot of people with brain power on its payroll. So, as expected Microsoft is finally trying to catch up.
If Apple is changing the way we read magazines and books, Microsoft Courier is changing the way we use our gadgets. The way we access information. Then, there is the powerhouse, Google, who people say, hired the top 10% of world's talent over last couple of years. They are not going to get satisfied by placing just the adds on a Apple or a MS device, rather it would become more and more interested in having their own presence in hardware landscape, they just hit a bulls eye with 'Nexus One', arguably the best smart phone ever, according to many reviews till date.
Don't discount the new players in the arena who might come up in big way like MS came in 1980s and Google in early 2000's. Amazon is another likely to follow suit, and the traditional PC makers HP and Dell too, sooner or later, venture into smart world.
Going back to the original subject of this blog...where we will end up? I can see in near future students going to school with just a device... with textbooks downloaded...what a reprieve from the heavy bags! Students can write onto the screen of the device, save it in a file (for more see how MS Courier works on You tube) no need to keep you note book and worry about all those important notes you had taken during classes.
Apart from ease of access this will definitely save the environment as less papers will be consumed. Books to be published via e-route, already Dan Brown set the path with 'The Lost Symbol'. Well all these were to happen in very near future...In distant future?
I can visualize, a single device...having a size of a palm (or less)....having few 'Zeta' or 'Yetta' bytes of memory in it. You can talk, read, write, watch, surf with the device. It will store your biographical records...and hence it will be obviously have bio detection in it. The gadget will store your medical, academic, credit histories (or other sorts of history). It will be projector too... project the to a screen...no need of a big screen TV or PC...It will obviously be connected to the cloud...past will be the days of background, education, employment verification process...it is all stored in your device...you get a degree..the university will insert a record in your device and the cloud which you can not change..same as when you leave or join a job.
Gone will be the days you had fat wallets with all sorts of cards in it..believe me...my wallet has at least 12 cards as per my last count, ranging from my credit card to local club access card. Your 'Personal Device' (PD) will have all the required information and authorization.
But human brain will not stop here either...probably a chip inserted somewhere in your body will make your organs function like computers, it can download information on your brain, you can type an email by just a few finger movements, which will be downloaded into recipient's brain. your lips and ear can perform as cell phones, may be not even a chip...a liquid injection in your body will make you a e-human. Your body will automatically call for help when something go wrong, your skin will be climate controlled...your body cells will be data repositories ultimate secure storage...possibilities are endless, the innovation will go on...never ending....
As human being we will keep innovating till we can keep the old knowledge intact...if we can not do that, we have to start from lighting a fire....designing a wheel...
Do not forget to leave your comments and do wait for my next blog "the future of us" in few days.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The earthquake in Haiti
Needless to say this incident is very unfortunate. My sympathy and precious $25 toward company matching contribution is already underway. People around US generally prefer and build their houses with wood, but Haitians being in Caribbean, build concrete ones as their first priority is to be safe from hurricanes. But, when an earthquake epicenter is just few miles away and of magnitude 7 in Richter scale, you can not expect your house to remain on ground.
By watching CNN and the complete decimation of the capital city I got drowned into my own experience 9 years back.
On January 26, 2001 Gujarat (in India) experienced a major earthquake, that was the starting for 'Media era' and within minutes whole world knew of it. A day after IBM planned for a rescue-come-relief mission to Kuchh area in Gujarat (worst hit area)
Being in IBM and being on 'bench' those days I decided to lend my helping hand (though I was not exactly planning to remove debris to find bodies, at least I was praying to not to do it). God listened to me and I was given a task of entering data for daily incoming relief materials. Also prospect of being on a air plane was a major deciding factor too ;)
I and few other camped at Samakhiali village on Bhuj- Ahemedabad highway. Daily 100s of trucks loaded with relief material used to cross us, but, not before furnishing our desktops with details about the truck contents. At the end of each day during night we used to tally data from all collection and distribution centers and the subsequent analysis were then sent to Gujarat govt. to let them know about shortfall or excess of relief at any center in Kuchh area.
Unfortunately I didn't have access to digital camera, or else I could have own a few photographic contexts just by clicking the scenes on near by villages and townships. I had seen two storied buildings becoming single storied I had seen people sleeping on roads (as I went there after a few days I did not notice any one who perished). I had seen people rioting for food packets.
Our mornings were interesting, it used to start with a trip to nearby Babool bushes with a bottle of Bisleri in hand. It was quiet a struggle, we had to compete with the pigs who consider those as delicacy, and the moment you offload something they will come towards you to eat out...you have to run....run for your a...but be careful the trees are Babool...you know what I mean...imagine that you are running with your pants down through Babool tress...oh dear god!
In the mornings we were on Fafra, Khakra and Dhokla diet, the gujju dishes, which Amir Khan thought of as weapons of mass distructions ( 'Saddam ne USA par do dhokle gira diye hain' ) in his movie 3 idiots.
In between our shifts of intense data entry, during breaks, we used to go for relief work to near by villages the buildings were destroyed exactly the same way as they are showing these days from Haiti. The nearest town was Anjar, where we couldn't find even a single structure intact. People, all god fearing people, used to even blame the Bollywood movies for the destruction as if god was angry by watching unethical things in Hindi movies.
We were there for 2 weeks before moving to Bhuj for a day and then finally got our flight back to Pune. Experience was great and a sense of satisfaction was there in all of us. I cant do anything this time, except my $25
One interesting coincidence though...between the two incidents...people still blame global warming for earthquakes, but why would earth shake itself because of pollution? Can it sneeze?
By watching CNN and the complete decimation of the capital city I got drowned into my own experience 9 years back.
On January 26, 2001 Gujarat (in India) experienced a major earthquake, that was the starting for 'Media era' and within minutes whole world knew of it. A day after IBM planned for a rescue-come-relief mission to Kuchh area in Gujarat (worst hit area)
Being in IBM and being on 'bench' those days I decided to lend my helping hand (though I was not exactly planning to remove debris to find bodies, at least I was praying to not to do it). God listened to me and I was given a task of entering data for daily incoming relief materials. Also prospect of being on a air plane was a major deciding factor too ;)
I and few other camped at Samakhiali village on Bhuj- Ahemedabad highway. Daily 100s of trucks loaded with relief material used to cross us, but, not before furnishing our desktops with details about the truck contents. At the end of each day during night we used to tally data from all collection and distribution centers and the subsequent analysis were then sent to Gujarat govt. to let them know about shortfall or excess of relief at any center in Kuchh area.
Unfortunately I didn't have access to digital camera, or else I could have own a few photographic contexts just by clicking the scenes on near by villages and townships. I had seen two storied buildings becoming single storied I had seen people sleeping on roads (as I went there after a few days I did not notice any one who perished). I had seen people rioting for food packets.
Our mornings were interesting, it used to start with a trip to nearby Babool bushes with a bottle of Bisleri in hand. It was quiet a struggle, we had to compete with the pigs who consider those as delicacy, and the moment you offload something they will come towards you to eat out...you have to run....run for your a...but be careful the trees are Babool...you know what I mean...imagine that you are running with your pants down through Babool tress...oh dear god!
In the mornings we were on Fafra, Khakra and Dhokla diet, the gujju dishes, which Amir Khan thought of as weapons of mass distructions ( 'Saddam ne USA par do dhokle gira diye hain' ) in his movie 3 idiots.
In between our shifts of intense data entry, during breaks, we used to go for relief work to near by villages the buildings were destroyed exactly the same way as they are showing these days from Haiti. The nearest town was Anjar, where we couldn't find even a single structure intact. People, all god fearing people, used to even blame the Bollywood movies for the destruction as if god was angry by watching unethical things in Hindi movies.
We were there for 2 weeks before moving to Bhuj for a day and then finally got our flight back to Pune. Experience was great and a sense of satisfaction was there in all of us. I cant do anything this time, except my $25
One interesting coincidence though...between the two incidents...people still blame global warming for earthquakes, but why would earth shake itself because of pollution? Can it sneeze?
Friday, January 15, 2010
First day at blogging
Finally I am here, I am into blogging ...this is the easiest way to share all my dirty thoughts. Pour all my garbage without caring for others... I know all of you who are reading this are un-invited guests trying to sneak in to my brain cells...so, I don't care what you think, I will write my heart, sorry, brain's contents here.
Why I opened a blog? For last few days, since realizing the pathetic condition of my PR, I (along with my wife) opened ourselves to social media, as all other persons of Indian origin we chose Orkut to be our social media, then I tried opening my own website, couldn't shape the site (http://www.sudiptoslife.com/) even after 2 months, so here I am... ended up with blogger. What did you say, How I ended up choosing this one? Very simple, Google uncle told me to use this one.
Now about what to expect from my 'two lines', don't expect much, few well known facts, current affairs, sports; Read them through my ugly mind, try to decipher through by garbled language. My wife says I shout... I talk ...I give lectures.....while taking bath. Yes, that is a little crazy stuff...but it was my way of expression...but, isn't the blogs meant for my type of homo sapiens?
And about me....I need little bit more time to pen down at least a few of my DNA characteristics.
Well, though I said you are un invited, you are very welcome to read the trash I will put here occasionally and you are welcome to express you dissatisfaction in the comments area.
Happy reading and do come back again...once I put in a real blog. I can only hope the first day euphoria stays for ever and doesn't die as happened with most of the bloggers.
Why I opened a blog? For last few days, since realizing the pathetic condition of my PR, I (along with my wife) opened ourselves to social media, as all other persons of Indian origin we chose Orkut to be our social media, then I tried opening my own website, couldn't shape the site (http://www.sudiptoslife.com/) even after 2 months, so here I am... ended up with blogger. What did you say, How I ended up choosing this one? Very simple, Google uncle told me to use this one.
Now about what to expect from my 'two lines', don't expect much, few well known facts, current affairs, sports; Read them through my ugly mind, try to decipher through by garbled language. My wife says I shout... I talk ...I give lectures.....while taking bath. Yes, that is a little crazy stuff...but it was my way of expression...but, isn't the blogs meant for my type of homo sapiens?
And about me....I need little bit more time to pen down at least a few of my DNA characteristics.
Well, though I said you are un invited, you are very welcome to read the trash I will put here occasionally and you are welcome to express you dissatisfaction in the comments area.
Happy reading and do come back again...once I put in a real blog. I can only hope the first day euphoria stays for ever and doesn't die as happened with most of the bloggers.
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