The End or just a BEGINNING...

Thank you all for being here with us in this enlightening journey towards future. I am the captain of this BLOG ship. Through out the journey with this blog you will get more knowledgeable, excited, bored and at the same time a lot of fun. I can't say for sure after this blog it will change your life or not, but if this blog for anyone become even a single source of inspiration, my purpose will be served; my writing will have a meaning.

Right now, at this moment of self-awareness, I see the whole course as a long journey. A journey where you can actually introduce someone inside you to your own self. Let’s start our journey with this beautiful quote by Erich Fromm,

“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”

So fasten your seat belt and don't loose it until I say...

Open Up U'r MIND, A Story

toDay, I'd like to start by telling you an interesting yet very moral story. Long ago, there was great scholar living in China. He was famous for his wisdoms and thoughts. He had many students. One day a young fellow came to him and asked for permission to stay with him to learn from some of his great thoughts. The scholar agreed upon his enthusiasm.

One year had past but the young student found that he had learnt nothing from the scholar. He waited for another one year but still the knowledge was not coming to him. One morning he got very impatient and angry and went strait to the scholar and asked that why he didn't learn anything. The scholar looked into his face, smiled and asked him to pour some coffee into the cup in front of him. The student started to pour coffee into the cup and stopped when it was almost full.

The scholar asked him why he stopped? The student replied that if he droped any more coffee into the cup it would be overflowed. The scholar smiled again and said observe the situation carefully. He said, "if the cup is full it is not possible to fill it up with any more coffee. When you came here to learn wisdom, you came with a heart full of your thoughts and ideas and kept it that way for so long. That is why you haven't learnt a single thing. Open up your mind and let the knowledge come to you; only then you will be able to receive wisdom".

I heard this story arond 5 years back in a seminar. I believe a future thinker should not be so up-tight with his or her limited knowledge and should welcome any source of information. Some times you need to see beyond your own judgment and rationallity and believe in what your are dreaming about the future...

your daily tech use in future

The most interesting class so far. Sven Tollmien has totally taken over the room atmosphere. I enjoyed from the beginning till the end of the class. The entire was divided into 3 parts. At first the guest lecture took place. Through out the lecture a case study was developed. It was about a little girl named Li and her younger brother. Along with her growth what technology she will be using in her daily life was the focus of discussion.

- She will talk to the web like a friend
- She will be playing virtual football games like akaaki
- Her communication will be faster
- Her mobile phone will be very knowledgeable and can tell her what to do It will control her house. It will be the source of her entertainment
- Her fashion will be easier from virtual models on the web
- Virtual twinity will be a new place to live
- Her 5th screen will be in her contact lance or in her retina.
- She will be able to speak from her mind or brain without using her mouth or actually speaking.

- and so many

After this analysis and before the 2nd part started we were offered Magic Chewing Gum that immediately burst inside your mouth when you take them. Tollmien claimed that chewing gums were not like the ordinary gum; those actually could open our mind and help us think more creatively. Saying that he gave use some slides where we were supposed to draw our future. It was a nice experience, as for the first time I get to know how creative our sketches and ideas were. Tollmien also came with a software that detects peoples emotion reading their face expression specially from the eyes and lips. I must appreciate Tollmien’s preparation for the evening. The good news is Magnus said Tollmien considered us as one of the best creative audiences he has ever come in contact with.

The class actually was full of creativity, entertainment and enthusiasm. Probably the best among all the lectures held in this course. Finally, when Magnus said today was the last class of the course I instantly thought what could be a better ending than this one?

Self-Assembling Bionic Eyes Coming Soon: Any self-respecting child of the late 20th century would jump at the chance to overlay an electronic stream of information on their field of vision -- but when the idea's gone from science fiction to science, it's usually been more A/V club than Snow Crash.

Computer Program Could Translate Dog Barks Into Human Speech: Hungarian researchers have written a program that explains the meaning of dogs' barks. The software is still a bit buggy, but it's promising enough to suggest that computers could one day translate not only between humans, but between species.

Read more of this scince stories at http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/webtech/index.html

WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class)

It is a story of WALL-E a garbage collecting robot. The story takes place In a distant future, where mankind has abandoned earth because it has become covered with trash from the products sold by the powerful multi-national Buy N Large corporation, WALL-E has been left to clean up the mess. The story moves forward with WALL-E’s regular garbage collecting activities with his a sprightly pet cockroach unit, One day, a sleek and advanced robot called Eve is sent to find earth’s livable condition.

WALL-E totally falls in love with Eve and there are couples of romantic scenes like saving Eve from dust storm and rain and showing her the special stuffs that he found out of the garbage including a green plant for which Eve was sent on Earth. Then there is a chase for both WALL-E and Eve across the galaxy that revealed many undesirable issues. Joining WALL-E on his journey across the universe is a cast of characters including fat sluggish human and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.

Watching our future world and human race in this way is definitely not charming at all. Couple of scenes in the movie really stuck me. For instance, riding around the space resort on hovering chairs and drinking all of their meals through a straw out of laziness and they are all so fat that they can barely move. And how would you feel when you see that the only livable planet discovered so far has turned into a big trash? However, the movie concluded with a hope that the earth actually will never give up on creating the atmosphere where life will be once again sustainable. I kinda liked this movie I think in this movie there is a message for anyone irrespective of gender and age.