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What AI does for us Vs. what it is doing to us.

Posted on May 17, 2024May 18, 2024 by Unny

[First published in Mint Print Edition, 17th May 2024.] “To erase the line between man and machine is to obscure the line between men and gods,” says the line in the teaser clip for the movie Ex-Machina released in 2015. What technology does for us has never been a topic for a discussion or debate….

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Peak Greenwashing: What Green NFTs are all about

Posted on July 30, 2022March 17, 2024 by Unny

(First published in Economic Times Brand Equity) Recently a former colleague and a popular podcast host asked me in a conversation that how much of what we do are really impactful and how much of that is playing to the gallery. And my response to that was most of the things done in the pretext…

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A Death, Cats and Washing Machines, and a Way of Seeing the World

Posted on April 18, 2021March 17, 2024 by Unny

I have never been a religious person, barring the first 15 years or so, though I grew up in a deeply religious and ritualistic family. Since high school, I have moved in the spectrum of agnosticism to atheism, finally settling for the latter. No compulsions or pressures from home also helped my cause. During my…

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Religion, State, and Personal Choices

Posted on December 8, 2020March 17, 2024 by Unny

Debates are now raging over a new controversial law that allows the State to interfere in a deeply individual choice like marriage (notwithstanding that in India, it is not such a deeply personal choice). It doesn’t require much intelligence to see this as unconstitutional and State trying to exert power over individual liberties and freedom….

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Of Being Hunters And The Hunted

Posted on December 5, 2020March 17, 2024 by Unny

Science, especially with the understanding in evolutionary biology and neurosciences tell us that as a species we have evolved over millions of years and our brains have evolved over time. And our actions are controlled by reactions/changes in any of the three parts of the brain. Millions of years back, the primary purpose was to…

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