Being a 90s person, mine was one of the first generation adopters of intuitive Graphical User Interfaces. It took me 18 years to properly lose my Unix virginity. It not only brought a plethora of hacking skills, but also a deep appreciation of our rich computer heritage. Computer Science is the best thing to happen to the world in the last century. Turing had a hunch - to replace the scores of women ‘computers’ calculating away during the World Wars, with a hypothetical machine that follows instructions and operates on data - continuously maintaining one of its several states.

We have come a long way since. The Computer History Museum does an awesome job at preserving the heroics of the people who contrived contraptions that made life easier.

Microsoft dominated the Unix market with its licensed platform - Xenix. DOS is heavily inspired by Unix. But then they split ways.

Much more to be added in this post. Keep looking for the buzz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33

Refer : Unix Prog. Environment by Kernighan and Pike The Man who knew too much - Life of Alan Turing

Watching Cosmos [S01E02]. Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks about artificial and natural selection ( dog breeds, and polar bears; respectively ). He also talks that we share our DNA with plants, and furthermore, plants and humans share DNA with birds, etc..So we can backtrack in a similar inductive fashion to reason that life started as ONE COMMON ancestor.

What I think? We have ML, and DM backtracking mechanisms available. Why not think in this direction, that we can establish a correlation between different species, a coming together of various kingdoms, in a way that both explains and justifies evolution - both in the artificial, and the natural way.

My hunches are sometimes right, and mostly overstated. But we can try, right? It’ll teach us a lot of things. Firstly it’ll make us better at looking at ourselves, at the world as one great family (that’s what Vasudev Kutumb is all about, right?)

If we can use backtracking to predict disease vectors, and weather conditions (from the IIRS orientation session), I believe we can collectively develop a genealogy project for species all over.

After all, why am I learning all the tools to process data, and to code? To make the world a better place, right?

Remember, we don’t need to save the planet, the planet is strong enough to sustain itself; we need to save ourselves, from the disasters we can cause artificially.