Author: Satyen K Bordoloi

Satyen K. Bordoloi weighs in on the disparity between the perception of and the potential inherent in Artificial Intelligence The 1991 film ‘Terminator: Judgement Day’ opens with the foot of a sentient machine crushing a human skull. ‘The Terminator’ seven years earlier had begun similarly. These films, along with HAL-9000 of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ before and the ‘Machines’ from The Matrix after, have dominated our imagination about Artificial Intelligence. These films concealed a fear in us of a potential human extermination when AI finally ‘arrives’. Nonetheless, it has been over a decade since AI not only ‘arrived’ but became…

Delivering groceries within 10 minutes is no less than a technological miracle, finds out Satyen K. Bordoloi as he takes stock of the innovations that make it possible for apps to do so It cannot get faster than this. To go to the kitchen, decide, open, pour and pick snacks to go with your favourite OTT movies – at times – takes longer than 10 minutes. Yet, there are over 80 apps and services worldwide that deliver bagfuls of goodies in less than that. This flash, instant, ultrafast (can we coin a new term: ultrasuperfast delivery virus mostly began abroad…

Crypto-wars may hold the key to the fate of future wars writes Satyen K. Bordoloi Blockchain technology – be it cryptocurrencies or NFTs – is supposed to be borderless. Yet, no expert ever predicted that crypto could be an instrument of war. But that is exactly what war-hit Ukrainians and sanctions-hit Russians are suddenly hoping for: that cryptocurrencies are war-proof. This is a hollow hope. For even if cryptocurrencies are war proof they are not fluctuation-proof. Since its peak of $68,000 on November 10, 2021, Bitcoin has mostly fallen and the day the war began, the price hit the lowest…

How did robber barons get away with more than the GDP of the bottom 50 nations in this daring robbery while armed with an India connection, writes Satyen K. Bordoloi The biggest robberies and heists in the world boggle the human imagination. In Money Heist, the robbers steal a billion-dollar. What could be bigger, right? The facts of the case though are that the world’s biggest robbery, is monumentally bigger and far stranger than the best in fiction. In 2016, 119,756 bitcoins were stolen in a hack of the then-largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The cost of the stolen currencies…