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The Memory

 April 01 2034 Today something interesting happened. We got alert that some people are planning to detonate bomb in the city. A suspect was brought in for questioning.  First, we tried standard third-degree treatment but he didn't say a word.  We had no choice but to try a novel technology.  He was plugged into our new memory extraction machine.  The machine is like an MRI machine. It extracts all the memory of a person in a video format. The memory of a typical person is huge.  The machine produced video of length of many days for the suspect. It was further fed into an AI to extract portion of videos that contained memory of the planting of bombs. The AI extracted ten different videos of the planting of bombs. All at different places but at the same time and date.  To safeguard their secret, their organization has implanted nine different fake memories in his brain.  Only one of them can be genuine.  The suspect was wearing a Rolex watch at...

The Big Tech

For two decades Facebook and various other social media have contributed to spread of misinformation.  They are using vast amount of data to train their recommendations system better and better. It has gotten so good that millions of adults are struggling with social media addiction. The Big Tech companies are basically earning money from exploiting time from users across the world.  But they don't pay their fair share of taxes to government.  Amazon earns so much revenue from India but claims to be in losses for so many years. Google paid 300 crore as tax to Indian government in Fy20. Taxes paid by them is disproportionately lower than impact in country.  Problem is they are backed by us government. Any effort to tax them raises ire of usa government.  But now what they are doing large language models is too much.  They are basically using collective knowledge of humanity to train large language models. But it is only being used to oust low wage workers....