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The shift!

        There is a gradual shift happening in the way we work, if you can sense it.  Yes this transformation is making us confined to our homes. The workplace is shifting to a small table or a couch at home. This is physical infrastructural shift, of course.        The other shift is the ability to remember or even process the information inside our brains is being handed over to machines.  Take a peek at the Alexa or Siri, the tools that are aiding human beings. These tools are easing out our life but also making us remember less. If you do not feel it now, you will in at least a decade from now.       Fast forward to 2050, we might even be creating, playing, colloborating inside the META world.  Imagine the workplace is our bean bags at home, wearing a VR goggles, a simple touch or even a thought is making the robot write a program for us.  Where does that lead to the human evolution as such. Aren't w...

Kannad gothilla - Love for language

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        Ah, what a great morning to wake up to when you read an article in the newspaper that touches your heart. Yes its 29th May today and the paper is TOI with article being "No more 'Kannad gothilla',...". Its just too good to see outsiders in Karnataka starting to learn Kannada, our language. In the midst of decline of few of the languages, I appreciate and grateful for those who started learning. Courtsey - Times of India Newspaper       A reuter blog  talks about a survey from People's Linguistic Survey of India where more than 220 languages are lost in  just 50 years and another 150 is due in next 50. Is it got to do with the diminishing capabilities of reading, writing or rather the love for languages?  Well, if you read the reuter blog its all those and nomadic culture to a great extent.  The decline of language is mostly seen in the coastal areas and in the nomadic people group. Added to that if your next gene...