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THE FASCINATING FUTURE

In 1998, Kodak had 170,000^ employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide.  Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years - and most people don't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on paper film again? Yet digital cameras were invented in 1975. The first ones only had 10,000 pixels, but followed Moore's law. So as with all exponential technologies, it was a disappointment for a long time, before it became way superior and got mainstream in only a few short years. It will now happen with Artificial Intelligence, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs. Welcome to the 4th Industrial Revolution. Welcome to^ the Exponential Age. Software will disrupt most traditional industries in^ the next 5-10 years. Uber is just a software tool, they don't own an...

HYPOTHETICAL REPERCUSSIONS OF A NUCLEAR WAR BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

By the time Pakistan starts prepping it's nukes everywhere from New Delhi to Washington will know and there will be incredible pressure and even threat of a pre-emptive non-nuclear disabling attack. If the Pakistani's keep going on their path despite all the warnings - India, Russia, Iran, US even China would intervene militarily with pre-emptive conventional strikes using missiles, alternate weapons and special operations teams. If beyond all this incredible opposition, the Pakistani's do manage to launch a nuke against India - by the time the nuke enters the trajectory and starts the ballistic approach - India would have launched a full scale retaliation against Pakistan  as per Indian nuclear doctrine which is simply put : "No First Use of nuclear weapons; any nuclear attack no matter it's magnitude will be met with full retaliation". Then there would be a mad scramble to disable all Pakistani nukes which are in flight - our new anti-ballistic defense sy...