We believe that multitasking is the essential ingredient to being healthy, wealthy, and happy. We do it incessantly in our work lives and even in our personal lives. While conversing with the person across the dinner table, our Google Glass, or if you have upgraded, the VR goggle, keeps telling you of the latest tweet […]
The Power of the Crowd
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke When diktats come down from the high up, i.e., the corridors of administrative power, and these are not helpful to society at large, does the crowd, i.e., a mass of people, mobilized through technology have the power […]
Datacenter outages and stranded passengers
Datacenters – these distant, idealized instantiations of our digital present – do fail at times. When they do, they affect our physical present. Here is one (of several) reason why this happens and this one is only too human.
The Lazy Hacker
The latest crippling ransomware to hit our digital world has been Wanna Cry, which raised its head around May 12. Ransomware is a kind of software used by bad actors (or simply put “bad guys”) to make data in computer systems unavailable, such as, by encrypting the data. The bad actors promise to make the […]
How to Fall … and Stay in Love for Long
A little town to all outside observers, miles away from anything exciting happening, is where I have been for the last eight years. When I try to answer why this town has grown on me, and now all around me, many vignettes come jumping up all agog to get the prime spot in this story. […]
Imponderables of academic publishing
An academic’s journey from writing papers to writing a book.
