Already it is January 31!How time flies fast, n past as a blur of days! It appears as if it was just yesterday that 2026 had begun. Why, it is already the end of January, 2026!
Ours is an era marked by supersonic mo(ve)ments that just speed fast. As a result, the attention span is minimal most. Mind you, I am not talking merely of kids obsessed with cocomelon. Adults are no better! Look at the way we consume news now. Earlier people used to actually read a newspaper. Now a days, most do not even watch the t.v. news. The source often is a quickie online!
Consequently, the celebrities these days are, too, of the "here today, gone tomorrow" variety, right? As it is, given the explosion of excessive (n obsessive!) information overload about everyone n everything, hardly is there any alluring aura, a subtle mystique about anyone. The very many "managed" competitions are, moreover, spewing celebrities dime a dozen!
Hence the title of our blog today which wonders what people would do when there would not be any work, as already abundantly promised by the AI establishment. May be, hence such habit-formation of the masses to be passive spectators, quiet(ened) consumers. Are not we giant sized babies, happy with our own pacifiers!
Pratima@Sometimes I wonder if we are dancing to the Einstein rhythm. What do I mean? Well, the great Albert Einstein never put his feet on Mars, but his equations took that giant step long before any rover could walk the surface of any planet, forget Mars.
When he published his ideas on general relativity more than a century ago, as scientists would put it, he proposed something outrageous for his time: gravity does not just pull on objects, it stretches and warps time itself.
For decades, that sounded like pure abstraction, adored because it was Einsteinian. A thing for school n college chalk n blackboards, and university journals, not for the dusty red deserts on the Mars!
Now, ultra-precise atomic clocks and radio signals bouncing between the Earth and the Mars are quietly confirming what our Albert knew an eon ago, namely, time on Mars is not flowing at the same rate as time on Earth!
May be, hence, we on earth are so zapped by the time curve wherein there is always the end of the beginning! And, hopefully, vice versa!
Quote of the day: Says Sage Heraclitus, "we never put our feet twice in the same river."
Word of the day: fugacious. Fugacious is a rather literary word which means fleeting or transient. Rather like a sensational news time our blog mentions in the initial paragraphs! Sure does it have a fugacious claim on the public attention. The term is from Botany, where it refers to falling or fading early.
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