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One Thing I Learned
This Is How Your Immune System Reacts to Coronavirus
The way coronavirus affects different people is as unusual as the virus itself. Dana G Smith notes, “Some report having nothing more than symptoms of a mild cold; others are hospitalized and even die as their lungs become inflamed and fill up with fluid.” I learned a great deal about how coronavirus affects our immune system from this article.
One Product I Recommend
This happened 10 days ago. I was super upset about something - so much so that cute puppy videos couldn't cheer me up. Being the technology addict, app dependent generation that we are, I went on AppStore and quite literally searched for "apps that make you happy". After browsing around for some time, I found Happyfeed. It said in the description that if you use Happyfeed, "you'll be building a simple, beautiful feed of all your happy memories". Huh? Didn't sound like a bad idea to me. This feed of happy memories will come in handy on days when nothing feels right. Also noting down three good things each day is probably the positive enforcement by brain needs to be grateful even during tough times. So, I signed up for it.
It's been 10 days and I can say that I'm loving it.
From a product standpoint, there are two things that are absolutely amazing about this app.
Simple UI - The UI follows a minimalistic design. It's very easy to use and you won't get distracted by anything else while entering your happy memories for the day.
Reminders - This app takes an unconventional approach to remind you to feed the happy memories. You get a fun fact or a quote as a reminder.
Fun fact about Happyfeed, as said by the founder - Matt Kandler - himself. “Believe it or not, Happyfeed was originally just an experiment to learn how to code iPhone apps. Nearly 7 years later, it’s a pretty robust journaling app! I’ve been using Happyfeed for 1780 days now and I can say it’s made a significant impact on my life.”
One Question from the Readers
How do you see technology changing in the next 2-3 decades and what kind of impact and involvement will it have on our life? Especially with life taking a giant digital leap during COVID-19.
Bernard Marr in his article for Forbes titled said, "We may not be living on Mars or traveling to work using jet packs, but there's no doubt the coming decade will bring many exciting technological advances." But with Elon Musk's optimism for Mars & Beyond and SpaceX's recent success of Falcon 9, I wouldn't be surprised if we actually make "humanity multiplanetary". I, for one, have my boarding pass ready:
I’ll do something about the departure year :P
Jokes aside, the "COVID Era" has established one thing for sure. It is possible to operate a lot of jobs remotely. The next step would obviously be to find a way to make it possible for the ones which can't. That would mean a growing inclination towards automation. In my opinion, this would result in some significant progress in the field of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Apart from that, I feel a big change will come in the health care sector. There could be a lot of changes - from a vaccine to make us immune to all viruses to a transition to home health care with better sensors. With wristwatches already measuring heartbeats, this doesn't seem implausible.
Most people worry that technology - especially with robots and automation, is going to take our jobs and will have an adverse impact on our lives. But I believe that it will create more jobs than it will take. Sure a lot of manual jobs will become obsolete but at the same time, the demand for skilled workers will increase manifold. Because like entrepreneur and futurologist Peter Diamandis said, “Yes, in the next 10 years, we’re going to reinvent every industry on this planet, but the change is one that is for the benefit of masses, whether it’s in longevity or food or banking.”
On a side note Nicholas Thompson, Editor in chief at WIRED, answering to a question on Quora said, "It’s controversial, but I am bullish on geoengineering, the notion that we will somehow be able to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in a way that limits global warming. We’re not anywhere close to it. But we haven’t been giving this issue the attention it deserves—in part for fear that talking about it would make people stop reducing, reusing, and recycling, and also in part, because every solution proposed so far has such potentially nasty side effects. (Shooting soot into the atmosphere could work, but oy!) And also because the overall danger of climate change hasn’t seemed dire enough to enough people. But as climate change gets even worse, even as we move to a solar-wind-battery economy, I expect someone to come up with something brilliant and creative, not in the next five or eight years. But maybe in the next twenty years."
I so wish this becomes a reality in my lifetime.
This issue’s Bonus Section - Moments from my Life
I recently learned to cook this dish called Eggs Kejriwal. And it’s safe to say it’s my favorite egg dish, after scrambled eggs. Why it’s named so is still a mystery to me.
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