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Anecdotes, Facts, Examples for GS and Essay

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One day someone dug up a twentieth century city
Here's an interesting inscription
'This water tap is open to all castes and religions'.
What could it have meant:
That this society was divided?
That some were high while others were low?
Well, all right, then this city deserved burying-
Why did they call it the machine age?
Seems like the Stone Age in the twentieth century
      - Daya Pawar (Dalit poet from Maharashtra)

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 Sharing some pointers that I had made while reading Homo Deus..@Purplesunbird 
These are very random notes and may not even make sense to you.. But if you type these phrases on google and write homo deus in front of it, maybe it will help you..

Cyber warfare

Knowledge based war.

Coca cola vs terrorism.

Terrorism. China shop. Fly story. .

Saddam hussain. USA. Analogy. .

Homo sapiens into homo deus.

Glass cieling of happiness. Psychological(expectations)

Biological

Cyborg

70s might become the new 40s. Researches on increasing human life.

No money for pensions.

No line between healing and upgradation in medicine.

Paradox of knowledge.

The more we can know, the less we can predict.

Mother infant bond is universal among all species.

Turing test compt vs human mind

Economic growth has now become a religion.

Considered to solve all issues. .

Greatest discovery is the discovery of ignorance.

Energy ,raw material ,and knowledge are the main sources.

Save economy from freezing and ecology from. Boiling.

Assumption that future scientists will be better at handling crisis. It is a flawed approach.

Poor more worried about economy than ecology because they have no other option.

Rat race- individual stress.

Despite all achievements, we have more pressure to do better.


In a free market customers are always right. . If customers reject a car, it is a bad car.

Implant electrodes in brain to remove PTSD or depression. Ethical reasons.

Transcranial direct current stimulus-helmets.

Watson AI machine.

Ibm deep blue chess.

Humans are specializing in comparison to hunter gatherers. Thus AI is feasible.

Techno-humanism.= create homodeus from homo sapiens.

Intelligence is decoupling.

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We are living at a stage where face to face relations are being converted into "Facebook" Relations -- A wise person once remarked. 

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