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The wheel of change

All the science tells us that we are headed for disaster but because to us climate change is not visible, there is no danger

One reads of software that defeats the world champion of some highly complicated game that is played with instinct. But that seems like it is no different from the time when Garry Kasparov was defeated by an IBM machine 20 years ago. Photo: Reuters
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One reads of software that defeats the world champion of some highly complicated game that is played with instinct. But that seems like it is no different from the time when Garry Kasparov was defeated by an IBM machine 20 years ago. Photo: Reuters

Aakar Patel
One of the things that is distinct about our time is that we can see great change unfolding before us.

This is true of our generation, meaning all the people who have lived through and are living through the last 25 years and will live through the next 25. 

We have been witness as adults to the widespread adoption of the internet and social media, of computers and mobile phones. I remember when personal computers, which were invented around the late 1970s, were a novelty in the mid-1980s and taken up by even modern offices widely only around the mid 1990s. Even

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