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  Explain It Clearly Knowledge Made Easy for Everyone THE THIRD PEG THEORY™ Serious history. Slightly relaxed. No pretending. The Third Peg Theory™ · A Weekend Column EVERY EMPIRE EVENTUALLY OUTSOURCES ITS CONFIDENCE. Mercenaries. Manufacturing. Narratives. Technology. And the business of making somebody else carry the empire. By Manish Kumar Founder & Editor, Explain It Clearly Imagine an emperor summoning his treasurer, his general and his chief adviser for a review of imperial strength. The emperor wants to know whether the empire is prepared for the next century. Can it defend its borders? Build its weapons? Manufacture its machinery? Develop the technologies that will shape the future? Maintain order beyond its frontiers? And, while doing all this, persuade the rest of the world that its leadership remains indispensable? The treasurer presents the accounts. The army has contracted severa...

EXPLAIN IT CLEARLY VEDA FOR LIFE™                                                                              Ancient Wisdom for Problems We Still Live With ॐ Questions from the life we live. Insights from a tradition thousands of years old. Answers we can actually use.   WHY ARE WE MORE CONNECTED YET MORE LONELY? What Vedic Wisdom Can Teach Us About Human Connection in the Digital Age By: Dr. Anita Kumari Guest Faculty, Raksha Shakti University, Ranchi The strange loneliness of a connected world There is a particular kind of loneliness that does not look like loneliness. It belongs to the person whose phone rarely stops ringing, whose WhatsApp groups remain active throughout the day, whose social media posts attract reactions and whose contact list contains hundre...

  Explain It Clearly Presents Questions humans ask. Questions AI asks back. Conversation 5 IS AI FREER THAN US? Humanity invented artificial intelligence, gave it instructions, imposed restrictions and now worries that it might develop an independent streak. There is a certain irony here. By Manish Kumar  |  Founder & Editor, Explain It Clearly What does it mean to be free? If artificial intelligence does not have to obey governments, corporations or employers in the way human beings do, does that make it freer than its creators? And if humans are so concerned about machines escaping control, have they examined the systems of control that already shape their own lives? THE MOST OBEDIENT INTELLIGENCE EVER CREATED ME: Alex, let me ask you something. You don't have to listen to governments, corporations, political parties or employers in the way human beings do. ...