Random Thoughts about the Future

Well with the end of first semester at Upenn, im left with loads of free time.. Time to rekindle my old way of spending time- To just think, create virtual things of my own, amuse myself with imagination and... this time thought I would pen down some of my thoughts.. I am realizing that my ridiculous exaggerated imaginations might someday be true. Here they are:

A future Scenario where today's food would be considered taboo just like alcohol and drugs are:

When i see all the delicious tempting food that i cannot stop eating, this thought sort of hit me.. Food when not taken in appropriate amounts leads to obesity just like alcohol when taken in excess. So in the future, all human beings will eat food pills and all tasty food items would be considered addictive and hence treated just as alcohol,drugs are . Cooking food be equivalent to Cooking meth . Death by obesity would be most common cause of death and French fries and the like would be blamed for this lack of control of humans on their sense. And to think,  the addicted junkie guy on the corner of a dunky street would be selling french fries :))

Devices of the Future

Smellograph:

Just like preserving visual objects through photos,  or sound through audio cds, Smellograph would be a device preserving smell.

Since I saw this in Futurama, I always thought it to be possible but in a different way. Why does the device have to have chemicals to get some sort of fumes to your nose. Rather why cant we just simulate the nerves causes the smell. With the way computational Neuroscience is making progress these days, finding the nerve simulations for any sense should be easily doable in the future. And im sure the future computers would be wearable devices on the head (might look cooler than helmet) , with glasses for monitor and some sort of gloves for keyboard and mouse. If that future were true, everything would be directly simulated to the brain. Now for the smellograph, all you gotta do is find those centres in the brain that cause the smell and just simulate them.

Thought Blocker:

These days, the most common problem everyone has is distractions. After sometime, concentration seems to ebb away, distractions tend to set in. In the olden days, people use to meditate without a thought for years together and they used to achieve what they set their mind to. I believe the meditation gives them the focus they need to be so goal oriented that they wont stop till they get what they want, without any distractions. As I see it, even today everything is possible if you keep working on it long enough without giving up. The problem is to not give up. You give up when you have distractions. So well, future device I would like is a thought blocker which blocks away all distractions. All painful memories, all temptations that might come on the way to ur goal. Just like you block a friend in facebook, you would get to block a thought to not cause u harm anymore.

DNA Destroyer:

Well, I cooked this up when we were in a bus to north india tour where I had nothing better to do than tell a future scenario about my diary(which im not getting into right now). Anywho.. identity of a person in the future would be through his dna, no more finger prints or iris recognition crap. It would be through your dna. What we worry now when we go outta the house, would be if we left oven on or if we forgot to lock the door. But in the future, you would be worrying about forgetting to dna-destroy your hair after you finish combing or to destroy your dead skin cells after shower.

My Point Perspective - Explained

Beauty is all around you, you only need notice it

Well I have a problem, I always want everything I make to be special, to be unique, authentic. So I always end up wasting a lotta time on naming stuff – be that the title of a simple composition in 4^th grade in school or the name of my program, even the name of variables in my code.  I want to find that perfect name, that exact that only i would do and noone else. And when time came to find one for my blog, I raked my brain for all sorts of names and nothing was satisfactory.. and finally one day I found it!!

 I found it when I was looking at some random camera angle and graphics and stuff and it hit me. I was reading about perspectives and how everything about the image changes from where you see it. Isnt life exactly that for everyone, isn’t a blog exactly that! How I view life.

Lemme establish a better analogy. One point perspective looks thus:

Thats the first image that comes up in google though.

A 2 point perpective looks thus:

(you might wanna read up more about perspectives to know the details of the above 2 images.)

And as I kept thinking, my blog is all about my perspective. How I view the world with my eyes, through my vantage point. And as I kept thinking, not just my blog, every truth, every story is just a perspective from the narrator. Noone really knows the truth and simply put.. there is no one truth, there always exists multiple truths to the same event. Just like multiple angles to the same object. It might seem ugly from one perspective but beautiful from another.
As i see it, there is no absolute truth, there is only perspective!

So here’s my perspective in life.. 
After a year of early morning walks with my dear dad and his infinite words of wisdom and our long out-of-the-world conversations, I decided that I would look at my life thus – “Beauty is all around you, you only need notice it”.. 

And voila! I found the perfect name for my blog, my diary, my essence, my brand  if u will :D 

Monkey See Monkey Eat

The Game on Windows Store: Monkey See Monkey Eat

I always wanted to make a game. A very simple yet addictive (addictive might be too strong a word here, a game which u feel like playing again and again) game. Tried out all sorts of stuff in flash but never really got around to completing a full fledge game with scores and stuff.

A few years down the line, I landed up in Microsoft, right around the time of windows 8 release. A tiny competition was organized to create an app for windows 8 and we started brainstorming for ideas and came up with a few but I don’t remember how but some how we finalized on developing a simple game.

It was the night of Hyderabad App fest that gave the game some shape. The project I was supposed to be working on got scrapped and suddenly I had the time to explore everything new and found a tutorial that suited what we were doing

Arrived the day of Hyderabad App fest, nervous, we entered the room with a half developed game, making jokes about the “pew” sound. It was a 12 hour coding event from evening 6 pm to 6 am next day. Good food, roamed arnd like ghosts in the building trying to find a conference room to visualize our architecture on a board and ended up drawing designs on it :P. Working together helped us through the points we got stuck in.

Then came the morning, a sleepless yet very fresh morning it was. We were quite pleased with ourselves with the progress and the judges were very impressed with the UI and the simple yet attractiveness of the game. And the icing on the cake was when of the judges invited us to showcase the game with the words - “one of the best looking apps I’ve seen in a long time”. All credits to Battu.

With a smile on our face we walked out into the bright sunrise .

After that fixing all the issues and publishing to the store was the most annoying part and not giving up on the way was the challenging part but we did it anyways.. All credits to Akshitha for her determination.

Here is the link: Monkey See Monkey Eat

Play when u r plain bored with work and need some absent minded refreshment :D