Reinvent Life? In the post COVID-19 era.
Debesh Choudhury, PhD
Information Security Researcher, Academician, Entrepreneur | Password & Cybersecurity, Digital Identity, Biometrics Limit, 3D Education | Linux Trainer | Writer | Podcast Host
The so-called futurists and influencers have been predicting exponential growth for quite some time. They predicted that bold technologies would overwhelm the future. They hosted jam packed conferences and webinars on exponential technology trends. Alas a nano living creature called Coronavirus has started to infect and ruin lives of the global citizens exponentially. We the suffering humans are supposed to fight back with all psychological and biological means. Should we wait for the leaders to guide us in this endeavor? Shouldn't we also try ourselves to reinvent life including education and business in a sustainable and quasi-spontaneous manner?
Should we wait for the good actions of the leaders of the world?
The political and religious leaders are supposed to act responsibly. Most of the world leaders are playing their roles safely. They have their respective political agenda. Some leaders are hiding the mean political agenda. Some are shamelessly carrying out political propaganda for the future general elections. There is nothing better than self help. So we, the global citizens, have to take care about our own selves. We can try to do whatever is possible to remain safe without waiting for the governments.
Should we try to reinvent ourselves?
Let us think about our own selves and learn to live harmonically without harming others. We should connect with as much like minded people as possible. Let us also take help from our connections and find ways to help them. We must not stop innovating in our respective fields of work so as to improve our lives and help the society thriving again. We must not forget that life and technology have no direct link. The humans are the real living interfaces between life, education, technology and business. We should try to reinvent life as a whole in a sustainable and quasi-spontaneous manner. We must also try to reduce carbon footprints in all possible ways. We have our powerful mind to think positively and act responsibly.
[ Deb Helfrich (Seattle, WA, USA) and I, Debesh, (Kolkata, WB, India) discussed about "The Unfluencers" LinkedIn group .. Without any preparation, we discussed about many life-centric topics including life after the COVID-19 pandemic, and reinventing life .. ]
Soul search the positive avenues of life
Sometimes we (I) may think that it is too late for refreshing life. Generally it happens in crisis situations. The present Coronavirus pandemic crisis is one such time. But we humans hold unimaginable power inside our body and mind. We can reinvent ourselves to bounce back. We must soul search all the positive avenues of life. And have dialogues with like minded people. Sometimes we also need to enjoy life with arts, music and culture. It helps to endure crisis situations and ignite the torches of future hopes in our lives.
[ This is an amazing piece of chorus singing called "When You Wish Upon a Star", shared by our friend Ryuhei Masuno. It was conducted and performed remotely by musicians at respective homes during April 2020. Music lovers may or should visit their group website "Kobe City Philharmonic Chorus", YouTube channel and know the members of the group. ]
I am thrilled to share another group singing by senior members of an advertising group of Mumbai, India. They are not musicians by profession, but I am deeply inspired by their zeal and passion for singing in crisis time. Thanks to our friend Sumit Roy for sharing it.
[What a Wonderful World! Song of hope by Prabhakar Mundkur Shalini Gupta Subhash Kamath Rajeev Raja, music arrangement by Merlin D'Souza, all from home in lockdowns]
COVID-19 crisis is not the end of life, there will be a new beginning ..
Nobody can guess how long the world has to maintain "physical distancing" to combat spreading of COVID-19 pandemic. But we shouldn't lose hope. We must continue enjoying the positive sides of life. Then, we must also learn how to reinvent life including education and business. Because the future won't be the same as before.
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I am a researcher and academician of electronics and applied photonics. My current research focuses on Privacy Protected Digital Identity. My friend Jose Munoz Mata and I are researching distributed ledger technology for decentralized digital identity and other real world applications. We are also open to help you include entrepreneurship education into K-12 as well as university curricula. Join our group EmploySelf and follow our LinkedIn pages EmploySelf & Learning Times for more information.
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4 年During these difficult times, I've seen people go out of their way to help others. I feel COVID-19 has uncovered things we didn't know about ourselves. People are becoming more inventive and creative. I hope we learn from this and how important it is to be respectful and to live in harmony. How not to be complacent and uncaring. How to look forward to the "new normal" and make the world a better place to live.
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4 年There are a lot of coronaviruses already circulating in the human population, and they cause head colds, not severe disease. And as far as we know, none are similar enough to provide any protection from SARS-coV-19 and subsequent covid-19. If SARS-coV-19 was circulating in the human population before the end of last year, it would’ve had to have undergone a profound mutation (or a series of mutations, more likely) to be suddenly so virulent and causing such profound illness in some patients.
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4 年Good read. Thank you Debesh Choudhury, PhD