Make Nature Our Friend

Our water reservoirs are running dry and residents are unable to access the water they need. Portable or drinking water is becoming scarce by the day. One of the big and important reason is that we are not sensitive towards conserving the water that we get. Just look around and we will see how insensitive we are when it comes to water. Our memories about scarcity of water are the shortest. We cry when there is no water but forget immediately once we get. Have we not:

• Left half drunk water in our glasses, specially at restaurants
• Seen pipe leakages, specially at construction sites
• Leaking water tankers
• Leaking taps or taps not closed properly
• Full opening of taps when the same work can be done with slower force of water
• Keeping taps open while brushing of teeth or shaving

and many other such examples of us being extremely insensitive.

Counter argument, promoting water conservation, watershed development, rain water harvesting, tree planting and all the other fancy terms, which we have been listening and also actioning to preserve and conserve our environment and water. Many corporate houses, big and small are taking these up as CSR activities and trying to promote / save the environment.

Every year, many Indian states face drought situations, even when we have good rainfall,

why? We all have read about the ground water levels of 21 Indian states will run dry by next year. One of the report states that about two hundred thousand (Two Lakhs) Indians die every year because they don’t have a safe water supply, and as many as 600 million people face “high to extreme” water stress. Federal government’s think tank NITI Aayog’s initiative where one of their agenda is to conserve our environment and are helping corporates or associations with these conservation activities.

Yes, it is good that corporates and individuals are being sensitive towards our environment and trying to do their bit and Government is trying to help promote these initiatives. But I have few questions:

• Why is this NOT our Government’s job too. I don’t come across where the government has taken up the initiative like planting of trees or rain water harvesting. Wouldn’t that be on a much larger scale and more cost effective and definitely much more effective.

• Why does government, in the name of development, allow or give permission to cutting of trees and plants and deforestations.

• Why is government not putting a law in place and be strict in implementing that if, for whatever reason, a tree is cut, at least two trees need to be planted and that too in the closest vicinity possible of the cut tree.

• Why is the government hell bend on constructing concrete roads (with pathetic raw materials), which prevents water from seeping in the ground, further depleting the ground water levels? Why can’t these roads be porous or why can’t they dig deep holes in these concrete roads for the same water to flow in the ground, hence conserving water and increasing the ground water levels.

I am not against what people or corporations or associations are doing to preserve our nature or trying to bring balance in our nature again. But this has to be a combined effort of people and government. Also, very important is that civilians too need to be sensitive towards these efforts being put in. If one cannot contribute, they should at least not cause damage to our environment.

I believe we need to start from grass-root levels by educating our children. When I say ‘our

children’, I don’t mean just our biological children, but all children, related as well as non-related. And this education is not theory, which is being taught by reading books, but practical’s. At schools and at home, there must be dedicated time every day or alternate day just like in school we have Games Period, there needs to be a period for children to be with nature… befriend nature. Similarly, a habit must be inculcated amongst all adults to maintain healthy nature habits, like maintaining personal gardens, or common gardens, helping befriending city animals, preserving and optimal usage of water, etc.

It is time for us adults to re-live our childhood, where we spent maximum time with nature and became stronger physically, emotionally and internal immunity. Let us practice and teach our younger generation that nature and mother earth have remedies for lots of illness and wounds. We need to embrace them, just like how we did when as children. We played in mud, climbed trees, ate fruits directly from trees, got injured but did not stop playing because we applied mud or leaf to cover that bruise or to stop that bleeding or max we just washed with plain water and continued to play. There are so many such things, which we did but have stopped our children from doing the same. No, this article is not to open up a debate on whether that was right or wrong, but it is about befriending nature. If nature becomes our friend, then we as their friends, would protect them from all those who would try to harm them, and obviously we ourselves would not do anything to harm this friend of ours.

Let us start with this small contribution towards our nature and it is the simplest of all… make nature our friend.

What to Eat Before Workout and After Workout

Food for Workout: Gain Good Muscle, Lose Bad Bulge

Workouts, fitness, living healthy are topics of my passion along with technology and I live by them.

“I regularly workout in the gym, but neither my weight seems to decrease nor am I gaining muscles in proportion to my workout. What am I doing wrong? What should I eat?”

What should I eat, this topic keeps cropping up and what people ask me about quite frequently is

what should one eat if they have been regularly working out in the Gym. This is in continuation to the many studies, which state percentages for a healthy and strong muscular body, one needs proper diet and sleep, which contribute about 65%-75% and intense workout adds just 35%-25%.  Other mistake, which these Gym goers make, is the misconception of stuffing themselves with heavy proteins and leaving out the other two very important macronutrients, Carbohydrates and Fats.

Post reading my blogpost on Balanced Diet - Part 2, where I briefly touched upon this topic, many came back asking for more details on Pre and Post Workout Foods. So, let me share my views on this.

I repeat again that this is a generalist suggestion and needs to be customised for each individual and secondly, I am no certified expert on this subject, but have proven results of my suggested diet plans.

Pre-Workout Diet:

What Should One Eat Before an Intense Workout for Weight Loss, that is to lose excess fat, which is lose inches and gain muscle mass.

I am a firm believer and follower of all three macronutrients, but the quantity of intake varies from person to person and type of workout one is planning for that day. On general terms, I suggest before undertaking weight training, carbohydrates will help increase your strength to endure rigorous exercises and help you perform better and also assist in effective weight loss, burn fat and muscle gain. This is because Carbohydrates helps you with the necessary energy, which we call as stamina, required before a strenuous weight-training workout.

Healthy diet and exercise routine work together to produce effective gain in stamina, muscle strength

and weight loss results. This is because our body withstands tiring workout sessions at the gym and uses up loads of energy, which needs to be replenished by these macronutrients and help regain lost energy. A wholesome diet plan, which I recommend is basis the physical activities you wish to indulge in. If you are into an intense fitness or weight-training regime, it is more important to be careful with your type of food intake. A healthy diet boosts your weight loss goal while a not-so-healthy diet may affect it adversely. While working on your diet plan, it is important to know what you eat before you exercise that will prepare your body for the upcoming burnout at the gym.

Important point to note here is that you need to identify and eat carbohydrate-rich foods that are low in fat and low or moderate in protein. Please make sure you have enough muscle glycogen as fuel for your physical activity. The Fat rich Carbohydrates have an adverse effect, like make you feel lethargic, heavy and in general low on energy. Muscles would feel tired and this would lead to increase in heart rate while trying to do intense workouts.

Few tips I can recommend here; eat your carbohydrate-rich meal along with lesser percentage of Proteins, at least 60-90 minutes before you start exercising. You may consume the following carbohydrate-dense foods that are ideal for a pre-workout meal but in moderate quantity:

• Banana
• Boiled Potatoes
• Sweet Potatoes
• Quinoa
• Roti - Ragi, Jowar, Wheat
• Low-fat granola bars
• Fig bars
• Peanut butter sandwich (Toast)
• Yogurt
• Pasta
• Milk
• Cheese
• Cottage Cheese
• Salads
• Dalia (Cracked Wheat)

For the morning workout regime, I advise not to start off on an empty stomach as you are already fasting the whole night before. Many feel that exercising on an empty stomach may burn fat, that’s just an temporary feeling, but very harmful in the long run, because muscles, which needs fuel, is starved, leading to fatigue in muscles, and development of Lactic Acid in your muscle joints and cramps, which further leads you not being able to exercise at your full performance.

I suggest following food items before exercising early in the morning, but in less quantity and about an hour before you hit the gym.

• Eggs - Boiled or Half Boiled sprinkled with salt and pepper
• Cereal and milk
• Peanut butter sandwich (Toast)
• Banana or any other Fruit with high carb content
• Paratha (less oily)
• Boiled Potato
• Poha
• Idli
• Dalia (Cracked Wheat)

Another very important thing to remember is to keep your body hydrated with lots of water.

Post-Workout Diet:

What You Should Eat After an Intense Workout.

Post intense workout, is a very important phase when our muscles have worked and our body has helped in supplying the essential fuels to these muscles. We now need to replenish with the right type of essential nutrients and this would again vary for each person. In reference to above regime of weight lose, muscle gain i.e. burning of visceral fat & subcutaneous fat and gaining of muscle mass. First and foremost, rest by sitting, stabilizing your resting heart rate, allow muscles to cool down and then please do proper stretching of the whole body and not just the muscle part you have worked out. This will help release of lactic acid, which gets developed in the muscles when we work out. Also stretching of muscles and joints helps release tension in muscles, specially the joints, helping reduce soreness and muscle fatigue, which sets in after about 15 hours of workout. Please hydrate yourself by sipping (not gulping) water constantly.

Now this is the time when you need to reduce the Carbohydrate intake and increase your Proteins, but what I recommend is post workout and cool down, have one or two Bananas or boiled Potato or Sweet Potato, it helps regain your stamina and before you take proteins, because absorption and breakdown (digestion) of proteins takes longer time and before that we need to supply our muscles with necessary energy. Proteins will essentially help in repairing the muscles and fibers.

Post shower, when your body temperature has been regulated to normal along with your heart rate, I recommend indulging in light proteins like;

• Soy - Soy Milk or Boiled Soy Beans or Soy Nuggets
• Milk
• Yogurt
• Sweet Potato
• Peanuts (unsalted) & Gram (Chana)
• Fruits like Cheeku (Mud apple), Avocado, Berries
• Eggs
• Dates & Nuts like Almonds, Peanuts, Macadamias, Hazelnuts, Pecans & Cashew nut, Fig, and Apricots.

After about 45 min, one can have a proper meal, which should have more of proteins compared to other macronutrients. The ratio that I suggest is 3:2:1 of Proteins : Fat : Carbohydrates. Now when I say Fat, I refer to Healthy or Good Fats; the Monounsaturated Fats and Polyunsaturated Fats and Omega-3s like Cheese, Pure Ghee, Dark Chocolates, Oily Fish, Olive Oil, Sunflower Oil, etc. These fats help in providing energy, absorbing of Vitamins, which helps in protection and proper functioning of our brain, heart and elasticity of skin besides glowing.

Ideal foods post work out that I can recommend are:

• Chicken
• Cheese
• Eggs
• Fish like Salmon, Tuna
• Cottage Cheese
• Milk with cream
• Roti
• Paratha
• Vegetables
• Quinoa
• Soup
• Yogurt
• Lentils and Daals

Please note that along with these macronutrients, one should also have an adequate amount of all Vitamins for healthy being. Vitamins play a vital role in muscle repair, development, and proper functioning of joints, ligaments etc.

Please keep yourself hydrated by drinking lots of water.

Before I conclude, I wish to share that one of the important ingredients to burn our food and provide energy is Oxygen. Unfortunately, as we grow older, we start to breath not just wrong but also inadequately. Example, to avoid our stomach from protruding out, we don’t breathe from our diaphragm and instead from our chest. Add to this damage, we don’t inhale to our lungs full capacity, which means we are inhaling less oxygen, leading to providing inadequate fuel to our body to burn the food we ingested. This leads to slowing our digestion process and food staying longer in our body... one of the reasons of gaining weight and inches.

In the end I shall say; Eat Healthy, Workout Regularly, Drink more Water and Breathe Slowly & to Lung Capacity.

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"NO ONE CARES ANYMORE"... I AM TALKING TO MYSELF. AM I MENTALLY UNSTABLE?

Scene 1.

Sid: Hi buddy, how are you today?

Rohan: Am Okay

Sid smiles and walks away.

Rohan smiles back and continues to look into his mobile phone while moving his fingers aimlessly on the screen.

Scene 2.

Rahul: Hey Shalini, you okay, you don’t look good?

Shalini: Ya ya, am okay.

Rahul: Okay, can you, when you have time, forward me that file we spoke about yesterday

Shalini: ya sure.

Rahul goes back to his workstation

Shalini continues to stare at her blank screen.

Scene 3.

Mohit: Hello Suresh

Suresh: Hi Mohit

Mohit: What happened Suresh, you okay?

Suresh: Hey Mohit, yes am okay, why you ask?

Mohit looks at Suresh, moves closer and puts his hand around Suresh’s shoulder and says, “Come let’s grab a coffee”.

Both go to cafeteria, get their coffee and Mohit says, “Suresh let’s sit for some time and chat”.

They sit at a nearby table.

Mohit: Suresh, I know you are okay, but still talk to me. Tell me what’s troubling you.

Suresh looks at Mohit and before he could realize, his eyes are wet.

Mohit holds Suresh’s hand, gets up making Suresh to get up too and hugs him. Suresh starts crying. Mohit does not stop him but pats his back gently. After some time, Suresh calms down. Mohit asks him to sit and sip his coffee, “Suresh, my friend, am here for you and you can talk to me anytime. If you wish you can talk right now or whenever you feel comfortable.”

Suresh looks at Mohit and says, “I don’t know what’s happening to me, but I don’t feel like living any more”, and he removes a small bottle from his trouser pocket, which has sleeping pills, “I was to take these later today”, and then from his shirt pocket, Suresh removes and hands over a folded paper to Mohit… it was his suicide note.

Suresh opened up and shared what he was going through, while Mohit listened patiently. After about an hour of talking and in between crying for few times, plus two rounds of coffee, Suresh feels better and smiles at Mohit. After a pause, Suresh says, “Thank you my friend, I realize how stupid I have been and foggy in my head. Thank you for listening to me… you saved not just my life but also my family’s who are dependent on me.”

Thanks to Mohit for being sensitive towards his friend’s reaction, he saved Suresh’s life.

Many of us, in today’s fast paced life are no longer sensitive towards people’s feelings or reactions. Yes, we do greet people with whom we work or our family members and friends, but that is a mere formality, without even noticing if they received the greeting back or what did the person reply.

A simple greeting like “Hello”, “Hi”, and waiting for the response,

can actually save a life.

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EMOTIONALLY: I’M DONE

MENTALLY: I’M DRAINED

SPIRITUALLY: I FEEL DEAD

PHYSICALLY: I SMILE

Mentally Unstable, Stressed, Depressed, etc, these words have become so common that we keep hearing and reading about it so often now. We hear children going through these, which was practically never the case when the Gen X, Gen Y or Baby Boomers were growing up. Why and what happened in this past decade or decade and a half that over 90% of the population today, across age groups, is suffering from some sort of mental disturbance. One can say that competition has increased, expectations have increased, life has become too fast. In the 1990’s we used to say that we are in “Jet Age”, referring to Jet Airplanes, which were recently developed then, that time and considered to be extremely fast or fastest man-made mode. But today, I think we would refer to Internet speeds like living in 5G era.

As per Wikipedia, Mental health is the level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness. It is the state of someone who is "functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioural adjustment.

There are many who do not realize that they are suffering from some sort of stress or depression or mental instability. Most people believe that mental health conditions are rare and “happen to someone else." In fact, mental health conditions are common and widespread. Infact most families are not prepared to cope with learning their loved one has a mental illness. It can be physically and emotionally trying and can make them feel vulnerable to the opinions and judgments of others. For people who have mental illnesses, their brains have changed in a way in which they are unable to think, feel, or act in ways they want to. For some, this means experiencing extreme and unexpected changes in mood – like feeling more sad or worried than normal. For others, it means not being able to think clearly, not being able to communicate with someone who is talking to them or having bizarre thoughts to help explain weird feelings they are having.

Let me ask you few basic:

1. Have you in recent past been unusually irritable, hypersensitive or had unusual angry outburst?
2. Lost interest in daily activities, which otherwise you enjoyed engaging in.
3. Have you lately withdrawn emotionally?
4. Do you have trouble in sleeping?
5. Have you had aggression or violent outbursts?
6. Do you have difficulty in concentrating or memorizing things?
7. Have you been suffering from headaches, loss of appetite, unusual pains in different parts of body?
8. Have you been behaving recklessly like rash driving/riding, listening to loud music, gambling etc.

If your answer to any of the above is ‘YES’, then my dear friend, you too are a victim of this new disease called Mentally Unstable. And you are not alone, so that’s one solace. Now that we have identified about our condition and acknowledged it, that’s the first brave step. Second brave step is to seek help without feeling ashamed or nervous or thinking of being judged as “WEAK”. Reach out to a professional or a friend or family member. Remember if and when someone reaches out to you, be there for them, that’s the simplest thing to do, but very very critical. No one is looking for answers here, and you are NOT expected to provide any solution. Yours is the easiest job…to LISTEN, yes just listen to them and allow them to talk. Provide a safe and non-judgmental space for conversations. Don’t stop them from talking and crying. Hold their hand or give them a friendly hug and keep acknowledging with an occasional nod.

Human touch has magic, it has healing powers, for the touch connects our souls.

Remember untreated depression can not only trigger problems in relationships, concentrating in school or at work, but it can also cause severe health problems like heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, even death by suicide or nervous breakdown.

Few symptoms to identify a nervous breakdown are;

• depressive symptoms, such as loss of hope and thoughts of suicide or self-harm
• anxiety with high blood pressure, tense muscles, clammy hands, dizziness, upset stomach, and trembling or shaking
• insomnia
• hallucinations
• extreme mood swings or unexplained outbursts

Recognizing the symptoms is the key and it is important not to ignore the signs.

Besides seeking help from people, which at times may not always be possible, I believe one can self-help too by engaging in activities, which one enjoys. This will not just change your focus from the existing problem, which fogs the mind from thinking rationally, but it also helps in feeling happy, by making one forget the “challenge, life is making you face” which is causing this mental problem. Feeling happy is the key and there are many such harmless things that one can engage in, to make us feel happy from inside; like going for a long walk in the garden or on the beach, workout in a gym, running, gardening, playing with a pet, cooking, traveling, watching movies, reading, visit a friend, talking to strangers, talking with children, etc. All these will help you overcome your stress and life challenges.

Let us take couple of steps back and see what the root cause of this mental instability is. One can put down a huge list, but what I have noticed is all that narrows down to extremely basic human traits; the three basic human postulates, which are “Insecurity”, “Needs and Wants” and “Fear of the Unknown Future”. Now I am not propagating that one should follow the path of King Siddhartha who on learning about life, renounced his throne to become Gautam Buddha. No, we live in a materialistic world and we are humans who have needs and wants and responsibilities. But why have we taken up the burden of these three postulates and instead of them being our companion, which should help us progress with happiness, instead we have made them sit on our shoulders and head, whose weight is pushing us down. Why are we getting buried with their overwhelming weight? Are they more important than our happiness and human life? Why are we giving them so much importance and at what cost?

Let’s take an example. Children are under so much pressure to perform and excel in everything they do: academics, sports, extracurricular activities. Why… why are they in this race where everyone is expected to come first. Why are we quoting examples of only those who stood first or succeeded Why are we in this number game. Are we saying that those who did not come first, or who did not succeed, or those who did not participate, they are failures, or they don’t exist? No, this is a lie, which we have been telling our children and making children believe in this lie. Why do we have such high (inhuman) cut off percentages for college admissions? On one side we are trying to promote and encourage literacy and education and on the other side we have such high cut off percentages for admission (besides high school & college fees), aren’t we setting off these children to fail? Why can’t we instead build more schools and colleges and sports stadiums and train more teachers and coaches. Why, can’t we address this problem differently, instead of creating problems, why can’t we address the problem with a solution. No house would deny that one of the biggest reasons for unrest at house is to see their children suffer. No pain is more painful for a parent to see their children in pain, and then imagine losing your child to these unrealistic expectations of the world.

This is not all, children have their own challenges too. Challenge to look the best, to fit in, to be valued & recognized amongst their friends and cousins. Aesthetics, Appearance, Popularity etc, all these add up to the existing set of challenges. And then there is challenge which has cropped in our lives, the special dose of social media. We have become slaves of this ghost who has possessed our body and soul.

By the time this child grows into youth, these challenges have compounded into bigger demons and they now have many other tributaries. There are expectations in their relationships, professional courses, getting a job and then excelling in this job, parents, house and owning of other materialistic products, etc. Why have we created a world of these expectations to be fulfilled at a much shorter duration of time.

These keep getting bigger and bigger as we move from one phase of our life to other, the circle of life or wheel of our life, keeps getting bigger and heavier. We became part of this wheel at such a young age that we never realized it and thought that this is part of us. It is like gravitational force, which we don’t feel on us because we are born in this gravitational environment, but unlike earth’s gravity, which remains constant at 9.807 m/s², this force keeps increasing and keeps burying us down.

Let us together break this wheel and try to be happy. Let us say and believe that we are Human’s and

it is as okay to Fail as it is to Win.

It is okay to fall and get up, that’s how we all learnt how to walk. It is okay to sit back or slow down and let others go ahead. It is okay to miss the train or bus. It is okay if your child repeats a class. It is okay if we don’t own that mobile phone or house or piece of clothing. Life does not stop because any of the above happened or did not happen. Enjoy and Value what you have. Feel Blessed that you are still breathing and have people around you. Be patient, for everything changes, bad phase will change to good and good to bad, nothing is constant, though it may seem the current phase will remain till eternity, but it is not. Stop reading about successes only, read about failures too. Embrace failures and losers and celebrate loss.

Stop by and sit with your friends and enjoy that unhealthy snack… make happy memories

Next time when you say “Hello”, stop and say it from your heart and then wait for reply, if you sense something amiss, stay there, hold their hand and ask again. If it’s okay then give a friendly hug and give a comforting look and ask again. Who knows, you might just make someone happy or save someone’s life…. Let’s join to fight this mental instability by reducing the pressure of those three postulates.

Be Happy and Make others Happy too.

JI LE YE ZINDAGI, KYUNKI TU ZINDAGI HAI JEENE KE LIYE.

BAHUT WAQT MILEGA, APNE DARD KA AFSOS KARNE, MARNE KE BAAD.

ABHI TU ZINDA HAI, TOH ZINDAGI KO GALE LAGA

ABHI TU MUSKURA, KYUNKI ABHI HAI ZINDA.

RO LENA JITNA RONA HO, MARNE KE BAAD,

PAR ABHI TOH HASS DE MERE YAAR.

Translated in English

LIVE YOUR LIFE, FOR IT IS TO LIVE.

YOU’LL HAVE LOT OF TIME, TO LAMENT ON YOUR GRIEF, AFTER YOU DIE.

YOU ARE ALIVE RIGHT NOW, SO HUG YOUR LIFE

SMILE RIGHT NOW, FOR YOU ARE STILL ALIVE.

CRY AS MUCH AS YOU WISH, AFTER YOU DEAD,

BUT RIGHT NOW, SMILE MY FRIEND.

Next Evolution of Humankind…Humans evolving into HUMANOIDS.

My phone is ringing, I can’t find it. Has anyone seen my phone?

I can’t locate my file, which I worked on last month, where do I  search?

Where are my medical files? What was my last blood report?

My battery just died on me…aah!

Does this sound familiar? Yes, we all have gone through this and still do, but behold, all this is going to soon change;

change which is inevitable,

change which is happening and we don’t even realise it,

change which is going to make us live like nothing what it was 20-years from now or even current.

This is going to sound a lot more like one of those Sci-Fi movies, but this is going to be a reality of our lives. This is already happening, and we don’t know about it. Let me try and connect the dots, more like arranging the blocks of a jigsaw puzzle.

We all have heard of Nano Technology, few might be aware of it being used in multiple sectors, more in medical and bio-tech sectors. In the last few decades, there have been lot of advancements in this technology, found use in many applications, which are still being explored. A very important and emerging area of nano technology are the nano-bio sensors and biochips, which have numerous applications in nanomedicine in the coming future.

Bit of technical stuff here to explain what and where this is being used, which is helpful to life on Earth, before I explain how this is going to be misused.

In molecular biology, biochips are essentially miniaturized laboratories that can perform hundreds or thousands of biochemical reactions simultaneous. They help in genome (Genes) study, which generates huge amounts of information from each individuals’ genomes. A new generation of programmable diagnostic devices are being made now, called ‘programmable nano-bio-chip’, which helps in decoding this information and will potentially bridge the significant scientific, technology and clinical gaps through the creation of a diagnostic platform to measure the molecules of our life.

Some of the applications where this study would help are disease diagnosis and prognosis for areas including cancer, heart disease and HIV.

Biochips applications are widespread across the fields of biochemistry, microbiology, pharmacogenemics, proteology, clinical pathology and DNA analysis. Today, there are three main types of biochips that are used;

1. Lab-on-a-chip 

2. DNA chips 

3. Protein chips.

Seeing successful clinical trials and potential of these biochips, a new parallel

use of these biochips has been explored and these are being called HUMAN MICROCHIP. These are implanted in the upper layer of our skin (epidermis). These human microchips are integrated circuit (IC) devices (what we see in practically all electronic devices like music systems, computers, etc.) or RFID transponder encased in a silicate glass and implanted in the body of a human being. This type of subdermal implant usually contains a unique ID number that can be linked to information contained in an external database, such as personal identification, government documents, medical history, medications, allergies, and contact information.

Besides storing information about an individual, what else will Human Microchipping do, how will it change our lives?

Well it is going to rock our skin’s world…quite literally.

With these embedded or implanted chips, we soon would be able to open our front door, start our car (recall this ardent Tesla car fan who implanted her Tesla car keys in her forearm), and provide our entire medical history. Well it can also be used in corporate offices for functions like HR, attendance, to gain file access, etc.  This is going to be our epidermis as we have never (ever) imagined.

Am quite sure that technology will further evolve and instead of implanting these chips, soon we will have these RFID chips like a tattoo or tattoo design implanted on the epidermis of our skin, using advanced mesh technology. Scary? Well we ought to me right now, but this soon will become a norm or part of our life system.

Let’s go few steps back and think how and when did all this start. The signs have been there for a while, it’s just that we never noticed. It is our fascination to miniaturize everything; Phones went from being static and on table to cordless to fitting in our pocket. Computers went from desks to laps to palms. Headphones went from over the ear to inside the ear. If there’s a trend in technology, it is this: Go small. Smaller still. Even smaller than that, till devices may start disappearing altogether and technology will literally be part of our skin, which we are today calling as “Wearable Technology”. This wearable technology will become “Implanted Technology”.

Let me draw your attention to one more thing, which we have already started using, but yet again, we have not connected the dots. These microchips, well your pet probably already has one, but right now this probably is being used for quite different applications for your pet than it would for humans. Pets’ microchips help locate them if they get lost. For us, microchips will make life more convenient or otherwise, you decide, while I try to explain what future holds for us.

These microchips would not be restricted to just implants but will get deeper till we don’t have physical hardware’s or devices or let’s say we humans become devices like HUMANOIDS.

So how will all this work or come together. Let’s deep dive a bit here. There will be technological advancements in eye lens, which will have multi-functions; serve as screens and cameras. Micro earphones would be implanted inside our ears, this is already being used to help people who are unable to hear properly. Microchip implanted in our skin which will be like a computer in a chip. Now what will this do? To begin with, you will never say any of those statements, which is mentioned at the start of this article. How will this happen, let me explain.

all are moving everything into the cloud and we are no longer dependent on a particular device or hardware. Like our emails are not restricted to any one computer, we can access our emails from any device, anywhere, anytime. Our documents, photos and other multimedia files too are being saved on cloud and we are no longer being restricted to a particular device. This has happened slowly but steadily and consumers without being aware of, has moved into this space. So, what’s next? We would no longer need these heavy and expensive hardware’s like computers, laptops, phones. Also, we would no longer need those large storage and storage devices because all that we wish to save, all that can be saved, all that needs to be saved, will be saved on cloud and everything will be integrated. Once this happens and with these biochips being implanted in our body / skin, we would carry our data with us all the time. Further, thanks to us using Intelligent personal assistants like Siri and Alexa’s of the world, we are using voice commands to access data and information. And of course all this would be rendered useless if we do not have the backbone called internet; super fast and seamless internet and lo-behold we are about to enter the world of 5G mobile network technology, which will make us always connected.

These Biochips will use our voice commands and do the work of the devices, which we currently use, but without them. Example, to make a phone call, we will use our voice command (which few of us are doing right now) and the biochip will make an audio or video call and screen will get projected in air in front of us through the eye lens which we are wearing (like contact lens which we wear right now). These projected screens will be viewed privately by us or by others for public viewing by providing a unique code. Audio will be directly in our ears with micro earphones implanted in our ears. Similarly, documents will be projected in air using our eye lens and we shall type through air-keyboard or through voice commands.

Everything will soon get converted into electronic and no paper would be used, again something that has already started; e-Passport, E-money, E-Wallets, E-credit cards, Online Banking, Aadhaar and Pan are numbers, E-License, etc. All our documents, banking, transactions, etc will be electronic and all these would be connected through a single identity, which will be a number. We all would become a number and lose our name as an identity. We all have slowly been moving towards this unknowingly; to get a new mobile number, we have to share our Aadhaar number, or PAN, or Passport etc, to open a bank account, its similar, for any government form or work where identification is required, we provide these documents or numbers. All these are getting interlinked, hence leading to each individual being associated with one single number as identity in the government records. Now if someone who has access to these records, changes your name against this associated number, there will be no proof or document for you to prove otherwise, which we can right now.

And then we have this whole thing called Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, which is threatening the very intelligence of humans. So now if we connect all the blocks of this big jigsaw, the picture which is getting formed is that of a human which is not a human in traditional form. We would not only compete with fellow humans, but with these artificial humans too.

Technology, which was introduced to be an enabler for humans/mankind, will enslave us soon. We would become technology. Are we ready for this? Well there is no choice, as this is the next evolution of humankind…humans evolving into humanoids.

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