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Smartphones as a brand-agnostic commodity?
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Smartphones as a brand-agnostic commodity?

December 13, 2017September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

I’m hugely into science fiction. Or, as the current terminology goes in the US, ‘I’m bigly into sci-fi’. Across books I listen to (audiobooks is my favorite mode of book ‘consumption’ given the amount of time I spend on Bengaluru roads) and…

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On sentience, sapience and speciesism

October 26, 2016September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

The more science fiction I read (and I don’t read anything else consciously, generally, when it comes to books), the more I ponder deeply about speciesism. You should Google or Wiki Speciesism if you don’t know what it means. In a nutshell,…

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Samantha, Jane, Gaia and ruing over annoyingly primitive human-machine interface
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Samantha, Jane, Gaia and ruing over annoyingly primitive human-machine interface

March 17, 2014 by Karthik S

The first thing that hit me when Theodore finished installing the new OS and started ?speaking? to ?her?, in Spike Jonze?s Her? was Jane, from Speaker For The Dead, part 2 of the Ender Series, by Orson Scott Card. I wasn?t really…

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Google Glass and facial recognition – a possible scenario!
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Google Glass and facial recognition – a possible scenario!

October 9, 2013September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

A wildly interesting thought occured to me while waiting for my flight at the crowded Delhi airport a few days ago. What if I was wearing Google Glass, there? What if the Glass had an app to search, identify and recognize faces…

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Real-time is a misnomer. The social web is helping my-time evolve!
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Real-time is a misnomer. The social web is helping my-time evolve!

August 19, 2013September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

I came across this (so-called) social recruiting case study via Gautam Ghosh last week – it was on how Bilal Jaffery was hired by Vala Afshar for Enterasys. I use the ‘so-called’ without any malice, more to point out my perspective on…

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Does your Twitter bio have your professional designation?

April 25, 2013September 12, 2018 by Karthik S

I have been asked this in the past. Why don’t I have my designation and employer’s name on my Twitter bio? Additional questions usually are – are you hiding that so that you can talk about them freely and people won’t know…

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The secret of multi-tasking during your morning jog!

November 9, 2012 by Karthik S

You know that feeling, right? That feeling when you have a really interesting book in hand and don’t want to put it down… and just finish it in one reading. But life has other plans and you manage to put it down….

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