Essay

I was living in Mumbai travelling on the local train trying to make it to my lectures on time, my cellphone, the ever dependable and unbreakable Nokia 3310 kept me in check. I was in contact with my friends, I was entertained with the limited selection of games and in the later models I had good selection of radio. I had multiple iterations of the Symbian phone until NgageQD which allowed me to game, watch videos and listen to music in a convenient way. All these activities were part of my day to day life which was spent in splendid company of friends exploring the real world. ...

The world is dealing with a lot. The times are highly complicated and the people dealing with the complications seem to be well versed with heightening the complication rather than dissolving it. But I don’t want to talk about the world problems. I am no one to solve them. I am just a techie trying not to get replaced by AI agents or robots or whoever else whats to take my job from me. I will probably end up working on the team that creates those very AI agents that will do my job, so there is a sense of nobility of working hard in there somewhere. ...