In his book, Thumbelina, Michel Serres makes an obvious demand that states that before undertaking teaching , a teacher has to know his or her students. This is fundamental to the success of the classroom. Hence, maybe we have to ask: Has our classroom changed? With the changing society have our students metamorphized? Serres’ book is an attempt to...
Internet of Things and its Promises and Perils
The internet of things connects humans and things. It might be also viewed as physical things talking to each other which is then translated to provide services to humans. The internet of things is growing around us. It has posed the question of agency of the non-human actors. Computers enabled by AI do several operations, access and process data...
AI and Human Arrow of Meaning
What will happen to hermeneutics with the rise of AI? Life depends of interpretation. As we put the chatbots into our life, will life be same to us humans? They will assist us to deal with our daily existential concerns. Hence, they will cross our emotional, social and spiritual senses of meaningfulness. We may at time over estimate the...
Digital Witness: Search for a Spirituality for Homodigitalis
We are immersed in a world of the internet. It has changed our way of thinking and living. It also has a great influence on the way we practice our faith. Internet is a great opportunity for evangelization and many have already put their hand to this plough. May be it is time to understand what it does to...
Facing a Rising Attention Economy
We are part of the attention economy of a Post-industrial world. We are all glued to the screens of our phones waiting impatiently to receive someone’s attention. We can notice this craze more among the young. The global pandemic has made this condition acute. While in some way we have found the digital escape to cope with the lockdown...
Homo Disruptus to Homo Amor
Homo Disruptus does not just rebel against the ills of the digital and AI world but also is set to rebel against everything that is built on our humanist anthropocentric thinking. Perhaps, it challenges us to rethink our theological assumptions. Being Christian, I embark to examine some of tenets of faith that may require scrutiny or reinterpretation with deep...
Thinking AI Through a Post-humanist Critique
AI is certainly human-centric. It is produced by humans to serve ends. It has entered everywhere- Medicine, policing, warfare, entertainment and even dating. Many are satisfied with this self-seeking human-centric approach of AI . Such an AI is actually nothing more than HAI ( Human-centric Artificial Intelligence) and is based on humanistic principle and values that were born as...
Locks and Keys that Close and Open our Lives..
We all need encryptions to keep safe every shade of information about us. Today we need in safety three different scenarios. They are the privacy of communication, the privacy of storage, and forward secrecy. Privacy of communication is concerned with the safety of the communication/ information while it is in the process of moving from the sender to the...
AI and Education
AI is a disruptive technology. It will affect several areas of our life. It is going to shape the future of education too. It is all set to disrupt education. It is fast becoming a popular tool among teachers and children. AI as a technology lends itself to any age group making it an exciting evolving technology. AI has...
AI in the Ministry of the Consecrated Persons
AI is steadily entering ministry in the Christian fold and other faith traditions. AI chatbots have become tools of evangelization. They give personalized answer to the queries of people who are interested in Christian faith. The role of religious as primarily evangelizers seem to be steadily taken over by AI. It is not really so. Religious will still have...
