Friday, October 17, 2008

How power is just a click away?

Is Charles Babbage responsible for the recent Serial blasts throughout the country? A quite intuitive question but totally apt to its core. Reports have suggested that the blasts were linked to an email which was sent through an unsecured Wi-Fi connection. The same old question of the 21st century arises. Is technology worthy of use? The ill-effects of the booming technologies are canopying their benefits and creating a deep dent in the essence of their existence.
Power is synonymous to the amount of knowledge you have or the extent to which you are able to employ the resources available to you in the form of technology. This is what a terrorist does, and this is what an engineer does. An engineer or a professional employs the resources in the most optimized way to create an output which helps him fulfill his appetite for power. But the use of technology in creating terror has been a new chapter explicitly added in the book of ill-effects of technology.
A click is conceived as the source of power these days. It is the click which contributes for sixty percent of our GDP. The emergence of India as a super power is attributed to the numerous clicks which take place in our IT sector.
The click is basically a chimera in a hooded cloak.It was the click which initiated the chain reaction of a dangerous atomic bomb. It was the click which led to the vicious 9/11 attacks on the super power USA. It was the power of click which led people paranoid during the millennium computer breakdown of Y2K.
It is easliy seen that an enormous power is wielded by just a paltry click. Ironical but true.The rise of miniscule pigmies in the form of internet ports, USB drives, wi-fi connections and numerous clicks to create a bloody havoc is inevitable.The age of the Matrix is here to haunt you.Click!

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

It is very difficult to write the first blog. I have erased my thought for four times now from this space, but enough is enough. I would not do it again and would pen down whatever pops up in my rat sized brain. I know that I have chosen quite an interesting topic, but it's up to you guys to judge that!
Do you know how to play Peekaboo??
Ask this question to anyone from a school student to the CEO of a company, and his answer is but obvious.....Yes, I do.
But do you know anyone who has won this game?
And the answer would be NO.
Even I too don't know.How would I know who is going to peekaboo me out from the huge number of my opponents with whom I am playing. My boss, or my friend, or 'time' itself, or the neighbour's dog or my bike.
I feel even the great mathematician and physicist Einstein wasn't aware of this too. Although he came close to win the game by introducing the concept of relativity, but alas! was peekabood himself by destiny. So how to play Peekaboo and win?
The answer is simple, control your destiny, have a tryst with it and you would emerge as the greatest of winners!
But now you would complain, ''I dont know how to control my destiny?"
Isn't this a perfect example of a Catch22 situation? So the question still remains.....What say you? Any answers?