One big happening of 2022 eclipsed all the other four –

Musk and Twitter, 

Lessons from the decline and fall of the Roman empire can be applied to Twitter and Facebook.

An Indian upbringing is perhaps a unique enough experience to equip executives for complex jobs!

It is intriguing and difficult to explain – how technology is making us go to the future, while simultaneously taking us actually to our past. Perhaps, it can be explained by the Eastern and Indian concept of time, where time is not linear with a beginning and an end or a past and a future, but is circular (kaalchakra), thus driving us back to where we started. It is something that perhaps crossed Albert Einstein’s mind in his later years, when he mused on the past, present, and future existing simultaneously to explain his unfathomable Theory of Relativity. Or perhaps it was the American rapper, Snoop Dogg, who understood it best when he intoned that “You’ve got to go back in time, if you want to move forward.”

Given the panic, death and disruption caused by the COVID 19 virus, it will not surprise you that this word originated from the Sanskrit word vish, or visa, and the Zoroastrian vīša - all meaning poison. We have heard enough about the harmful side of viruses, but did you know that they are responsible for the very survival of our species. In fact, 10% of human DNA is from viruses!

And, yes, they can soon power our cars, 'virus-powered cars'! 

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What is common to Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, the Game of Go, and the Art of Folding Proteins. “To understand life”, says The Economist, “you must understand proteins.". Even more so, you have to understand and know how they fold. 

In this fascinating 12 minute UnEpisode (even if I say so myself), understand how artificial intelligence and the game of Go combined together to solve one of science's most intractable problems, and how this can change everything!

My first UnEpisode for Tech Whispers is on My Seven Tech Predictions for 2021. “A good forecaster,” said an anonymous, but very wise man, “is not smarter than everyone else, he merely as his ignorance better organized.” In the very fist episode of my UnPodcast, I exhibit my ignorance: encapsulated into Top Seven Tech Predictions for 2021.

Discerning listeners would notice that it is already April 2021, so the predictions are three months late. To be very candid, I wrote these in the first week of January this year, but successfully procrastinated until now, and so am putting the UnPodcast regarding them only now.

The good part is that a couple of them have already come true! Give it a listen, it is just about 13 minutes of your time