The Perceptionist.....

We all live our day to day lives and situations, doing the things we love and appreciate, carrying out certain tasks or responsibilities that form or constitute the core essence of each of our own individual life situations and to quite a surprise- our roles as well in a given society, which with it's pressures and constraints also goes a long way to affect or impact our lives or the circumstances that come along with it. As we navigate through the 'hustle and bustle' of our lives, vouching for solutions to the 'missing puzzle pieces' that come in our pathway, there come a certain group of individuals or people who in the present day society we live in- are often looked down upon or neglected, given the value systems and beliefs that currently govern the society we all live in today, as well as the pressures exerted by the so-called 'capitalist culture' or the 'capitalist mindset' which has exerted it's influence in our day to day  situations and...

About some hours back, I was dwelling over a topic that has drawn interest in recent times with the fast-paced and ever changing world we live in where our lives have become increasingly governed by the so-called 'smart devices' or 'gizmos', be it in our educational institutions, at workplace and today with the onslaught of the pandemic- our very own lives are governed by the very existence of this component in varied forms and practices so much so that the lines between personal life and professional life are getting blurred, and also the very thought of who a human being is and is ought to be is starting to be questioned with the arrival of AI and allied technologies such as robotics, NLP (Natural Language Processing), voice recognition, machine learning and much more. It is something without which our existence as of this current date would feel nearly impossible highlighting the true interdependence or interconnectedness that it has come to occupy in our lives in re...