Raghu

Is The Internet changing our brains? I felt there is a certain way in which we take the information from pages on net and printed pages, our brains process Internet pages differently than they do printed pages. That can affect how much we learn when we read—and even alter our brains themselves. After a period of time we get adjusted to a specific kind of reading and accordingly our brain gets adjusts to it. For the past many years, reading books has helped train human brains to concentrate intently over extended periods of time, an ability that has helped to produce ideas and inventions. If we abandon books in favor of the Internet, our ability to maintain focus and think up new ideas might diminish. There are distractions which don’t just slowdown our reading, they also make it less likely that we will understand and retain new knowledge. When we read online, words are not the only information coming at us. There usually are eye-catching Pop up advertisements alongside the text and...

Well no, this is not a new version of the great Martin Luther King’s speech but just a dream that I had yesterday. I am someone who believes that one has to dream but wake up and work towards that dream but not this one though. Now what did I see? Bright sun shine was beating down on me and I just manage to open my eyes and see myself in big Roman Colosseum, I hear a lot of shouting and talking going around, I just look around and to see where the sounds are coming from. I see a lot of people gathered around me and they are shouting and up above in the stands there are lot many familiar faces, lot of friends and family members, most of whom are eating, drinking and smoking like royals and looking down on me very seriously. I try to get up but cannot as my hands and legs are tied from behind, somehow I manage to get up and sit in kneel down position. Now I get to see the faces, all of them and some people are dressed as guards around me. The guards near me do not resist my movement ...