Aditi Unplugged

I think it's important to talk about this situation without blindly claiming that artificial intelligence or any scientific research would ruin human life. So, human foresight is basically the ability to predict. Therefore, when we think about this topic, I get stuck on a question can a machine really replace humans? Because machines cannot think. So, they can't even predict the future. But if someone invents something like that, he is still the one who is thinking. A human!   He obviously imagines the consequences before building something e.g. A robot. While doing particular research, a scientist has a rough idea of its future results and its effects. However, on the other hand, we also need to know that he is thinking about only the next 10-20 years. But what about the next 400 years? Next 800 years? We think about our secured future through AI, but what about the future of humans after 500 years? Do we really think about it? If we did, we wouldn't have built launc...

It's been a roller coaster journey staying away from your home. It's not just the education that counts; it teaches you a lot of things. It provides you with fresh confidence, a new set of friends, a new city, new people, and new experiences, all of which contribute to a whole new life. But most importantly, it helps you realize what your home means to you. When you leave home, you don't just leave those four walls, but everything else as well, which you won't comprehend until you spend six months in those cramped hostel caves. It hits when you realize you won't be sleeping on that same bed, opening that window again, playing in this courtyard, watering these plants, studying in that corner, or spending time on the terrace watching birds and roaming around for fun. It will not be the same again! When you're scheduled to go, you expect to return. It's not just three years. When you leave, you want to explore the new city, enjoy your college life, and make you...

One day, you initiate it. You begin your day in this very same manner, with no idea of what is appropriate or inappropriate. Just thoughts, thoughts on how easy life is, how hard life is, or anything... I wonder if others who think excessively about everything are considered overthinkers or if I am the only one who enjoys thinking meticulously about everything, which is also a more loving behavior. The sound of that one bird singing about its world and its own cage-free existence pleased me. Are we all living a no-cage life today? We are living a complexly simplified life of our own and living life with all those other 8 billion people on this platform called Earth. How beautiful that would be if I was the only one doing what I was doing, though someday, I would be alone chasing my dreams, will it be called chasing really? While thinking about that, what do we define chasing in life? Want that for ourselves or is that too for the world? ! the WORLD … seems like I am truly living in...

Have you all seen those bright red apples at first sight, but when you buy them, bring them home, and keep them in water for a while, you find out that it was just a coating? The apple isn’t really that bright red. Every one of us knows about this, so did you stop buying and eating apples? We are facing the biggest cultural alteration of decades, named Westernization. We have also faced the biggest educational alteration in a century. Environmental alteration of changing natural landscape into cities and calling it urbanization, genetic alteration, physical alterations, and many more... We never thought about banning this stuff... Why is it that every time this digital word comes up, social media comes up, and we are ready to ban some or the other thing? What kind of impotence is this?? All this Photoshop and stuff is used because people don’t want to see what is imperfect because that is what they see all around. We , as humans, psychologically like to watch idealistic things  mo...

"In view of current macroeconomic parameters, the Government would reinitiate the process of strategic disinvestment of public sector undertakings (PSUs)……’ said Nirmal Sitharaman, in her budget speech of 2019! Indeed, I believe that prosperity is best built by the invisible hand of the market ! And so does the American economist, Milton Friedman. Not just him, but many other neo-classical economists have proven that the invisible hand is much better than the interference of government. When you say it isn’t, how would you justify that in the 1980s USSR had fur caps cheaper than food grains, luxury items were subsidised, and essentials were short in supply! Interestingly, the reason behind this was the STATE. This was a time period of a centrally planned economy, and the factors of demand and supply were not reflected. If this is how your stable hand of state works, then I feel there is absolutely no need for it. Let us not forget that post-COVID, the IPO boom seen in India ...

Is eating junk a flex? Yes, it is! Because those photos get the most likes on social media. Is suffering from diseases a flex? It was definitely not when I was a kid, but today it feels like people like to add the number of diseases in their lists as the number of degrees in our CV. Why? Don’t you have these questions? When did this all happen? How can we just tell someone so casually that I can’t eat 100 things because it will lead to some ill effects on my body at this age when our stomachs should be able to digest anything and everything? There is a difference between our stomach and our appendix. It stopped working because we stopped eating raw stuff. Now I question if there will be a day when the stomach will also lose its ability slowly if we are in this position. Being vegan by choice is different, but in most cases, we see that people choose this option because they are unable to digest other foods. What sign is this? Is humankind not making up for these changes? This transfo...

Yes, I believe that inequality is a necessity because it brings in you the greed to grow above the crowd, it gives you the greed to think out of the box, it gives the greed to bring revolution….  But the French Revolution is the greatest example of the necessity of equality in our society. Earlier people had to live under the monarchical system with no freedom and no rights. Today we can claim our rights because equality exists!  You cannot have deserts everywhere; you need mountains and plateaus. Every creature can’t be a human, there need to be cockroaches and pigeons. They lack something but still play their roles in the ecosystem successfully.  However excessive inequality can have adverse effects. If the number of cockroaches reduces, eventually there will be an imbalance in the food web affecting the whole ecosystem. That is where equality plays its role in cutting the pizza into 6 slices or 8 slices based on the number of consumers! But then if everybody ha...