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“I really do believe when ingenuity gets involved, when invention gets involved, when people get determined and when passion comes out, when they make…

December 2022

“If you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” The members of parliament asking such a question clearly don’t understand…
Sitting beside the crossroads of technology and humanity, watching it all go by
Sitting beside the crossroads of technology and humanity, watching it all go by

November 2022

Copy and paste is probably the most impactful productivity tool in the modern workplace. This simple, elegant solution has prevented millions of hours…
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The North Wind and the Sun had a difference of opinion. The North Wind boasted of great strength. But the Sun argued that there was power in gentleness…
Bhāskara II was a smart man. He has been called the greatest mathematician of medieval India. Also known as Bhāskarāchārya, he reached an understanding…
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Dr. Richard Cook was a system safety researcher. He researched and wrote about how complex systems fail. The kinds of systems he looked at were things…

October 2022

Can you explain why the world is the way it is? How things like the economy works? What things affect how your life turns out? No? Not surprising…
There was once a old farmer who had spent many years tending his crops. One day, his horse broke the fence and ran away. The neighbouring farmers said…
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Human population is expected to reach 8 billion later this year. Or it might have already happened. It’s hard to keep up. Two hundred years ago there…
There are five and a half billion searches on Google every day. Five and a half billion questions asked every single day. That’s a lot of people looking…
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