Have you heard the name Tim Berners-Lee? Does the name click? Okay, a clue! He created something that you use day in and day out, and not merely for "entertainment" raised to infinity.
No guesses, hain? Okay, no issues. He is the Oxford/MIT profe who invented the internet. A great person, right? Believe me, he began the works as early as 1989, and kept on perfecting it. By now, literally each and everyone across the globe is using his product.
Why remember him now? Is that your question? Well, it is just to prove to you that not only is he highly intelligent, but that he is a good soul as well, a pretty rare combination.
Well, he thinks that the internet, his brain child, is being grossly misused. The internet has grown up to be excessively commercialized. Yes, that is his grouse, and he is up in arms to undo the harm. A great gesture indeed!
The internet which is much better than the genie in Alladin's lamp, is, however, more like the slave of the wicked magician. Open, and actually much worse, subtle, data theft, blood curdling crimes such as the digital arrest which dupe the victims of a lifetime, the Grok like AI apps that make women's lives much more miserable, the internet, in addition to excessive commercialisation, is almost a den of crime. Good, its father is thinking of straightening out the errant kid!
Pratima@ All the conscientious inventors have always opposed the misuse of their creative concepts. Einstein who opposed the making of the atomic bomb is another major example.
The quote of the day: "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge," argues Carl Sagan.
The word of the day: fluke. By fluke is by sheer chance. Nothing in science is by fluke. As Edison summed it up, "it is ninety-nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration "
Let us learn grammar: An English sentence, in regular, non-poetic, non-literary usage begins with a subject. The subject is followed by a verb. The kernel of an English sentence is the subject-verb concord. That is to say, the verb agrees with the number (singular/plural) of the subject. The subject is singular, so has to be the verb.
That is to say, with the third person singular, he/she/it, the verb is verb+s in simple present, is/was +verb-ing in continuous tenses, and has +participle with the perfect. With the modal (we shall soon understand the verb types, moods, tenses), 'be able to', it has to be 'I am able to', 'he/she is able to. ' Tomorrow we shall look at lots and lots of examples of the subject-verb concord.
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