Infamous for procrastinating, but finally I’m back in my old seat. Excited. Fresh. In my last post I had promised my readers to give something completely new. So here I am :)

Again, am blogging from Eddie Davies library. Books and machines- gives me a feeling of a new religion!

Q. Are you tired of old geeky stuff?

To see what’s fresh take a closer look at labs of MIT, Massachusetts where Pranav Misrty is desiging SIXTH SENSE. His logics defy silly old touch screens and Pranav takes leap beyond conventional. With help of Artificial Intelligence, he’s coming up with a super cool gadget (hangs around his neck below).

sixth-sense

I’m posting the original video, showcased at MIT, so that you can see how this gadget is supposed to change our lives in the near future.

After seeing the video my jaws dropped open and I said- what a genius! Though his ideas are half-baked, they are ground breaking and worth praising.

I was listening to Harvard Professor Christensen Clayton, another genius in Disruptive innovation, who after a minute and half talks about biological evolution and role of machines, which help in transmutation. Even though evloution happens, mutation helps to survive. Now, let’s also look at ideas of Ray Kurzweil, an influential inventor and futurist, who gave beautiful examples to motivate and charge our brain cells-

  • Telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication- Western Union Executive, 1876. DEFIED.
  • Heavier-than-air flying machines are not possible- Lord Kelvin, 1895. DEFIED
  • 640,000 bytes of memory ought to be enough for anybody- Bill Gates, 1981. DEFIED
  • The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996- Robert Metcalfe (inventor of ethernet),who, in 1997, ate his words (literally) infront of audience.

He explains: “Computers today exceed human intelligence in broad variety of intelligent yet narrow domains such as playing chess, diagnosing certain medical conditions, buying and selling stocks, and guiding cruise missiles. Yet human intelligence overall remains far more supple and flexible.” I say DEFIED!

From the video above it is clearly evident that new technologies will emerge at good pace and they will be easy, accurate, cheap and affordable. The most exciting part- now machines will help to “make sense”!

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