Category: Futures
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The knowledge grid
*this post is not related to advertising. Foucault (can’t understand him) says something interesting in this video. He talks about history of science (consequently progress of humanity’s thoughts) as discontinuous grids stacked on top of each other. which I didn’t understand until Chomsky clarified it – essentially how 19th and 20th century ‘sciences’ discredited psychology, […]
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Essential Mutations for the 21st Century Brands
1. Rise of the walls 21st century weather report The world is reeling under the hate wave of right wing xenophobia, binaries of ‘Us vs. Them‘. The hate wave is projected to continue and expand as people turn their back on ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, which had yielded unequal fruits for the globalised […]
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OpenAI is not enough: On why Elon Musk must also disrupt the education system and ignite utopian imagination
Elon Musk is one of the few powerful people in the world who actually cares for the world, has a vision and has the ability to steer the world in conscientious directions. And Elon Musk is worried. He is worried about our probable future overlords – Artificial Intelligence (AI) , and rightly so. (“Not all […]
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Fight for your tomorrow
A generation working against its own interest It’s been 7 years since I entered the world of advertising. It’s been longer than that with the attempt to understand world and power – by reading Chomsky, Ambedkar, Amartya Sen and so on. As you can imagine (if you have read these people that is), there was […]
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Future of work
In response to a quora question – Future- How will the future of businesses and management look like and what changes should we expect? 1. Jobs for the Hyper-specialised 2. Second economy = computers transacting, interacting with other computers. the economy that is completely run by computers and algorithms, with little human support. Read this excellent […]
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‘What will our life be like in 2065?’
This entry is in response to a quora question – What will life to be like 50 years from now? Future gazing is tricky because, we can affect it to an extent. And ‘we’ don’t act unilaterally, and ‘we’ don’t comprehend the ‘extent’ of our acts and our limitations. Having said that, here are some […]
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Future of ideas
An idea is. and we are its vehicles. (see the ted talk below) We are the replicants at the employ of ideas. An idea does its best to spread no matter what we want to do with it. Tomorrow it will find a better replicant than us in machines. And right now, it is rewarding […]
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What good are Google glasses? OR How tech companies can choose not to be evil.
Why invent Google glasses? Here’s Sergey Brin trying to answer that question. Doesn’t his argument seem a little unconvincing – a weak reason to deploy the best of the brains on the planet and 3 years worth of efforts. The primary pivot of his argument is the glass’ ability to improve social posture (?). He […]
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