In recent years, there has been a lot of chatter online about ‘artificial intelligence’ and ‘digital inclusion.’ AI stands for artificial Intelligence and refers to technology that could carry out duties that would normally require human intelligence, together with natural language, spotting patterns, and making decisions. This technology uses algorithms and statistical fashions to simulate…
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Corporate Culture and Soft Skills – Maximise your Human Potential
Working with a diverse group people over a span of 8+ years has taught me a lot of things about life, work, and culture in general too. Dealing with people with diverse backgrounds as Advertising, Telco, eCommerce, Military & Defense and Software Development. I have noticed a few things that are common in all of them. Though…
Creativity – The Drivers, Inhibitors & The Downside
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all it’s students – Hector Berlios 1856 We should use our time wisely, it is a limited asset, and as we grow older it sort of becomes a privilege. Throughout history one can find great examples of disruption. Ideas that changed the world forever. Ideas that…
Haptic Feedback – Innovation in User Experience
“I was training at BodyMasters, and my headphones were on, blasting out my regular dose of Trance music to keep me motivated, though the music sounded awesome, there was something strange, i couldn’t feel anything, other than the rough metal texture of the bar is was holding on to curling the weight” To me this…
Problems that Plague the Modern Mind solved via Tazkiya
“Allah never changes the condition of a people unless they change what is in themselves ” Holy Quran [13:28] Islam the religion structures itself at three levels: 1) Submission 2) Faith (Imaan) 3) Excellence (Ihsaan) All external acts of prayer that Muslims perform are prescribed for the reformation of the heart. Islam enforces that for the success…
Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ – A Renaissance MasterPiece
The Renaissance is still thought of as the rebirth of art. It is a scholarly accepted view that the Renaissance was one of the great creative periods of progressive development. One of the masterpieces of the Renaissance was The Last Supper, a late 15th-century painting by Leonardo da Vinci and currently located in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy….
Perception – Why it limits Human Progress
Perception is perhaps a unified awareness derived from the world of sensoria. Meaning our hearts and minds bring certain information from different sensors in our body and create a reality based on that limited information. In today’s world, perception seems to have more weight than reality. Personally, i feel this is due to a rise…
Humankind – An Amazing Miracle
To think that human intelligence and consciousness is in the brain is similar to thinking that the Internet is found in your computer or cellphone. Our brain is sort of a radio, tuning into different sensors, and converging that information into a single vision of perceived reality. Whatever we see around us, was once just…
Al-Ujb – The Satanic Trait of Self Conceit
Purification of the Nafs is the greatest jihad. We all work so hard in our lives for ourselves and our families, thinking Insha’Allah one day we shall enter paradise. However there is one thing that can stop us from entering this dream destination. Self-conceit The greatest example of self-conceit in art is perhaps Narcissus. Narcissus was…
2015: Its a beautiful time to be alive
I grew up watching Ninja Turtles and the Terminator and believing that by the time i was an adult, some of us would be half-robots, some of us would be living on the moon, flying weird spaceships. Things that were just part of a child’s imagination. I was over-optimistic as a child, that the world…
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