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  “Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” - Ronald Reagan It could be argued although I am sure many would disagree that our presence on this earth, our value in any position is dependent on the information we share with the people near us. This is why maybe, we evolved or some higher being had us evolve to have a mouth to share, ears to hear and words to speak, all so that information could be exchanged. However, in the mid 1990s and 2000s a new era of information exchange was introduced, the world wide web, that forever changed the way we look at information exchanges. Never before have we consumed so much content in the form of words and images, never have we ever been more informed or misinformed depending on your allegiances on subjects that matter. Never before have I been able to simply click a few buttons and share a call with someone thousands of miles away from me and never b...

The word ‘concert’ comes from the Italian phrase ‘concerta’ which translates loosely to to sing.’ A powerful phrase to think about especially if you are standing in a concert right now and truly the feeling of a hundred voices chiming in to sing a song that means something so different to each and every one of us is a feeling to be remembered forever as perhaps the greatest moment of your life. I recently attended one of my first concerts and it is safe to say that I will not be forgetting it in any hurry but there were some other moments to be taken into consideration, that I would most definitely not be forgetting any time soon.   Concerts are stressful things, I felt stressed just attending one and I can only imagine what it must be like for the people organizing such things or the artists themselves. The crowds, the trash littered all over the place, that one drunk person taking their shirt off in front of you, being way too short to see the stage and consoling yourself by...

  On 31st October 2009, during the festival of Hallows Eve or as we better know it Halloween, an anonymous posting was discovered on a cryptography mailing list titled, “Bitcoin-A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System” by a mysterious individual or group of individuals Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin had been launched as a decentralized, borderless form of currency not tied down to any countries, banks or financial institutions.   However, before we try to understand bitcoin let us understand the concept upon which bitcoin is built on, that is blockchain. Blockchain in technical terms is an immutable, shared ledger that facilitates the process of recording transactions and tracking assets. To understand this definition, I am going to take a simple example. Imagine a library where there is no librarian and everyone can borrow books but every time a book is borrowed someone writes it down in their individual notebooks. So, if let’s say, Mary borrowed a book from the library then every...

The Computer Was Born to Solve Problems That Didn’t Exist Before — Bill Gates At first glance, you might wonder—what exactly are we talking about? A computer? A calculator? The machines we rely on to solve our problems effortlessly? We often think of computers as intelligent problem solvers, but in reality, they have zero IQ . Why? Because they don’t think for themselves. They simply follow instructions— our instructions . Take a simple math operation: if you input 1 + 2 × 3 , it returns 7 . But if you actually meant (1 + 2) × 3 , which equals 9 , the computer won’t correct you. It doesn’t “understand” the problem—it just executes exactly what it’s programmed to do. Ironically, this lack of independent thinking is what makes computers so powerful. They don’t get distracted, make emotional decisions, or second-guess. They process vast amounts of data in fractions of a second—something that would take humans years. That’s why, despite being "brain-dead," computers dominate indu...

  “There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’ - illegal drugs and social media” -Edward Tufte (American statistician and Professor at Yale University) Ever had that tingling, unbearably irresistible feeling of grabbing your phone and scrolling through every single media outlet that is possibly available at your fingertips? We see flashing icons before us Google, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Youtube, Tiktok, Whatsapp, Telegram, Twitter, Threads, Quora ... .okay I’m out of breath now. These flashing icons all offer us something our brain craves the most, information. We often look at information as a boring article that no one wants to read in a newspaper but really information is all around us and we consume it voraciously every day.  Consider the analogy for a second that likens our brain to a data processing machine. A machine that can process images, sounds, taste, touch and smells and produce something meaningful out of it. ...

Hey everyone! Before moving on to other seriously mind-boggling concepts we thought to give you a little introduction to computer science itself. We all have some idea of what computer science is and why it matters, but let’s dig deeper. If you read the previous blog, you might recall the quote, “The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” and that same mindset applies to the origins of computer science. At its core, computer science is an abstract blend of mathematics, physics, and statistics—an evolving discipline that has shaped the world as we know it. Many of us have always treated computer science as a solitary discipline, but in reality, it’s a clever combination of mathematics and science. The journey toward computer science is ancient, dating back to the invention of numbers, the discovery of gravity, and other foundational scientific milestones. But the very first foundations of computer science as we know it began when early mathematicians and scientists started dev...

Introduction We begin this blog by asking a simple question, what is technology. If we pose this question to you, our readers, we are sure you would know what it is but wait, question yourself again. Do you really know what it is? According to Webster's definition of technology- technology is the practical application of knowledge in any field and the capability that is produced through this application. We have a different answer to give you. Technology, in our humble opinion is a process, a journey of a hundred miles that began when our ancestors stepped out of their little caves and created fire.  In this world, in the world that we know, technology has become irreplaceable with our existence. We are defined by the car that we drive, the computer that we own and the company that we work and all of these are some by-products of the technological revolutions we have faced or are currently undergoing. It motors past us but we rarely stop to look and think, as the great inventors of...