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title:  "Laments Of An Aging Childhood Dreamer"
date: 2016-05-14
description: "An extremely juvenille blogpost where I lament as old childhood dreams transform into a lifelong fantasy as I grow older."
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An extremely juvenille blogpost where I lament as old childhood dreams transform into a lifelong fantasy as I grow older.

"I have an idea to build synthetic trees to reduce global warming and oxygenate our degrading environment.", says my brother (his tenth "new" idea to change the world this month).

When you are close to completing your graduation and have spent more than 3 years paying more attention on 'HOW' to do things, giving little thought to 'WHAT' to do and negligible thought to 'WHY', it can be a blessing (and simultaneously mind turbulating) to have a (~ 4-7 years) younger brother/sister akin to your old self - one who constantly reminds you of 'WHAT' you wished to do years ago that you have possibly lost sight of while laboriously working on the 'HOW' to do it.

(I consider myself fortunate to have a younger brother so alike my former self (though more mischievious and troublesome - our generation were certainly better as kids or atleast I was a better kid! :D ). While his ideas on world betterment, "new" inventions, and "revolutionary" enterprises are palpably ludicrous and one's that can be dismissed with not so much as the effort of Googling and opening the first weblink, they act as a constant reminder of my old dreams and rejuventate the visionary in me.)

Packing my trunk to leave for home the upcoming vacations, my eyes fall on the text book of Artificial Intelligence. A sly smile comes across my face as I recall an old conversation with a school teacher.

  **my (encouraging) teacher**: You are quite bright a student. What do you aspire to do in life?

  **me**: I want to build a very intelligent A.I. operating system. One that can adapt according to its user and respond to the user's thoughts. One that could be a friend, advisor, and personal assistant at the same time. One that can be integrated into our future smart home computing system, security system, our offices, cars and everywhere else we can be.

  Humored by the simplicity of my thoughts, **the teacher smiles and asks**: That sounds marvelous. How do you plan to proceed further?

  **me (beaming smugly)** : I plan on getting admission in good engineering college. My dad tells me IITs are the best in India. There I will study computer science, artificial intelligence, and whatever else will be required and then use the acquired knowledge to make my A.I. agent.

  **my teacher (I now wonder how she was managed to control her laughter)** : That sounds like a plan. Good luck!.
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layout: post
title:  "Laments Of An Aging Childhood Dreamer"
date: 2016-05-14
description: "An extremely juvenille blogpost where I lament as old childhood dreams transform into a lifelong fantasy as I grow older."
categories: My_Life Education
author_name : <NAME>
author_url : /about
author_avatar: samyak
show_avatar : true
read_time : 5
feature_image: child-superhero
show_related_posts: false
square_related: child-superhero
published: true
---

An extremely juvenille blogpost where I lament as old childhood dreams transform into a lifelong fantasy as I grow older.

"I have an idea to build synthetic trees to reduce global warming and oxygenate our degrading environment.", says my brother (his tenth "new" idea to change the world this month).

When you are close to completing your graduation and have spent more than 3 years paying more attention on 'HOW' to do things, giving little thought to 'WHAT' to do and negligible thought to 'WHY', it can be a blessing (and simultaneously mind turbulating) to have a (~ 4-7 years) younger brother/sister akin to your old self - one who constantly reminds you of 'WHAT' you wished to do years ago that you have possibly lost sight of while laboriously working on the 'HOW' to do it.

(I consider myself fortunate to have a younger brother so alike my former self (though more mischievious and troublesome - our generation were certainly better as kids or atleast I was a better kid! :D ). While his ideas on world betterment, "new" inventions, and "revolutionary" enterprises are palpably ludicrous and one's that can be dismissed with not so much as the effort of Googling and opening the first weblink, they act as a constant reminder of my old dreams and rejuventate the visionary in me.)

Packing my trunk to leave for home the upcoming vacations, my eyes fall on the text book of Artificial Intelligence. A sly smile comes across my face as I recall an old conversation with a school teacher.

  **my (encouraging) teacher**: You are quite bright a student. What do you aspire to do in life?

  **me**: I want to build a very intelligent A.I. operating system. One that can adapt according to its user and respond to the user's thoughts. One that could be a friend, advisor, and personal assistant at the same time. One that can be integrated into our future smart home computing system, security system, our offices, cars and everywhere else we can be.

  Humored by the simplicity of my thoughts, **the teacher smiles and asks**: That sounds marvelous. How do you plan to proceed further?

  **me (beaming smugly)** : I plan on getting admission in good engineering college. My dad tells me IITs are the best in India. There I will study computer science, artificial intelligence, and whatever else will be required and then use the acquired knowledge to make my A.I. agent.

  **my teacher (I now wonder how she was managed to control her laughter)** : That sounds like a plan. Good luck!.

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