A TED Talk I watched in 2011 has stayed with me and marked me deeply. It was presented by Eli Periser and he talked about ‘Filter Bubbles’ that were being created online, and how they were a threat to democracy. The part of the talk that stayed with me all these [...]
Ever since the 15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, we have had access to mass media. Unlike other printing technologies of the time, the printing press was revolutionary in that it enabled mass production of printed material and the rapid circulation of knowledge across societies. Over years, mediums other than print, [...]
‘The voice of the people is the voice of God’. It may as well be. It has had god-like powers to change the course of human history, across time, around the world, and in all aspects of life- be it social, cultural, or political. The world we live in has always [...]
We all know the apocryphal joke about opinions and a**holes. There's a grain of truth in every joke and at an individual level, the value of your opinion does indeed diminish rapidly as you move radially outward in your social and professional universe, with its importance the maximum at the center of [...]
