• The evolution from Homo sapiens to Homo faber
• Human Dignity vs Human Abasement by the Machine
• Chaplin’s Modern Times and Huxley’s Brave New World as twin warnings
• The double-edged nature of machines (lawn mower, vacuum, computer, auto-rickshaw)
• The AI question and the Pope’s warning about human control
• The call to keep Homo sapiens sovereign over Homo faber
• The final personal challenge: “Am I using this machine to deepen my life, or is it using me to thin it out?”
Category Archives: technology
How much does mankind spend on destroying itself ?
by M.K.Sudarshan July 26, 2026: Chennai, India A comparative perspective on the Financial and Strategic Costs that America imposes on the whole world 1. Asymmetry of Engagement The financial and economic ledger of the ongoing conflict in West Asia reveals a starkly asymmetric distribution of costs across the three primary blocks involved as seen inContinue reading “How much does mankind spend on destroying itself ?”
India, AI, and the Question of Ownership: Do we really have a grand-strategy for the AI future?
by M. K. Sudarshan July 6, 2026: Chennai, India A YouTube video recently circulated widely because it captured something that many people have begun to feel but have not yet fully named. https://youtu.be/UfyxN46tCz8?si=DeZxeZ_XhW_7IEtp The video pointed to a striking reality: millions of Indians are already helping teach machines how to think, see, understand, and act.Continue reading “India, AI, and the Question of Ownership: Do we really have a grand-strategy for the AI future?”
Energy, Progress, and the Future We Can Afford
by M.K.Sudarshan July 4, 2026: Chennai, India An exploration of civilization’s hidden dependence on energy, the warnings of Robert J. Gordon, and the possibility that the future will be more advanced yet less abundant than the age that came before. The Hidden Axis of Civilization There is a strange and revealing fact about human civilization:Continue reading “Energy, Progress, and the Future We Can Afford”
From Dorian Gray to King Yayati: A 70-Year-Old’s Epiphany on the Traps of AI
By M.K.Sudarshan June 27 2026: Chennai, India In Oscar Wilde’s classic novel, “The Portrait of Dorian Gray” (1891), a beautiful young man named Dorian Gray wishes that a painted portrait of himself would bear the physical burdens of his aging, hedonistic lifestyle, and moral decay, allowing his actual body to remain flawlessly young and untroubled.Continue reading “From Dorian Gray to King Yayati: A 70-Year-Old’s Epiphany on the Traps of AI”
Entrepreneurship is the Virtue-Signalling of Modern Corporate Capitalism (aka. “the new world order”)
Overview In contemporary political economy, entrepreneurship is often presented as a morally elevated force of innovation, risk-bearing, and social progress. Yet the structure of the modern corporate economy suggests a different interpretation: entrepreneurship functions largely as the legitimating language through which capital organizes production, appropriates profits, and normalizes an unequal distribution of national wealth. AcrossContinue reading “Entrepreneurship is the Virtue-Signalling of Modern Corporate Capitalism (aka. “the new world order”)”
The Great Betrayal: How Labour Lost in Both China and India to Capital in the decade 2014-2024
The Shared Tragedy A blue-collar factory worker in Dongguan, China, and a white-collar IT contractor in Bangalore, India—separated by the Himalayas and 3,000 miles—have something heartbreaking in common: over the past decade, both have watched capital owners capture 4–6 times more wealth per person than they did, despite their nations’ spectacular economic growth. In China, GDPContinue reading “The Great Betrayal: How Labour Lost in Both China and India to Capital in the decade 2014-2024”
From Gandhā Bharat to Vande Bharat: The Road Not Yet Travelled
Preamble: Fifty Years of the Same Observation In 1964, V.S. Naipaul arrived in India for the first time—a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry returning to his ancestral homeland. What he found shocked him. In his travelogue An Area of Darkness, he wrote a passage that would become infamous: “Indians defecate everywhere. They defecate, mostly, besideContinue reading “From Gandhā Bharat to Vande Bharat: The Road Not Yet Travelled”
Open Letter to the ICC and BCCI — Subject: A Proposal to Introduce “Net Catching Efficiency” as an Official Career Metric in International Cricket
Open Letter to the ICC and BCCI To: – Mr. Jay Shah, Chairman, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) – The Chairman and Governing Council, International Cricket Council (ICC) From: M. K. Sudarshan A devoted lover and long-time follower of international cricket Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Email: mksudarshan2002@yahoo.co.in Mobile: +91 9884287078 Date: 26Continue reading “Open Letter to the ICC and BCCI — Subject: A Proposal to Introduce “Net Catching Efficiency” as an Official Career Metric in International Cricket”
How the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”, “Moore’s Law” and “Jevon’s Paradox” teach us all the true Meaning of Life (Part 3 Concluded)
Human Nature, LDMU, and the Search for “Parama Puruṣārtha” Yet that sequence cannot go on forever. For all the empirical power of Moore’s Law and of Jevons’ Paradox, there is a deeper, more stubborn constant: human nature itself. And human nature, as the law of diminishing marginal utility suggests, is wired for satiation, for aContinue reading “How the “Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility”, “Moore’s Law” and “Jevon’s Paradox” teach us all the true Meaning of Life (Part 3 Concluded)”