Author Archives: Dr. Ramakanta

People are great in doing nothing. An example: The organ donation rate is highest in Spain. Not that Spaniards are a great conscious, humanitarian society. It’s because of a regulation that Spain has brought in few years back. The rule makes each Spaniard an organ donor unless he opts out. And people are great inContinue reading “Nudge as I understand”

Coding the steps of a surgery. How to capture the steps of a surgery and write the code for it so that a robot can operate independently ? Up till now robotic surgery is synonymous with tele surgery. The doctor sits in front of a screen inside a console and controls the instrument panel onContinue reading “The Artificial Surgeon”

Western culture provides a lot of “How to do ” books. But our almanac always recommends “when to do” any important thing. It seems they are quite accurate.   We don’t perform or feel the same way at every given moment of a given day.   Our mood fluctuates throughout the day. It’s a cycleContinue reading “The “When” moments.”

It was the first email ever sent. It was also the beginning of ascent of @ from oblivion to become the symbolic linchpin of a revolution of modern social connectedness.   It was 1971. Computer scientist Ray Tomlinson was facing a vexing problem: how to connect people at two different computers ? By 1970s, ComputersContinue reading “The story of @”