SHOBSERVATORY: A quirky look at research, marketing, brands, consumers and everything else astronomical to microscopic.
Ever since the dawn of robotics and artificial intelligence, our hope has been that the super intelligent beings we create will finally join all the millions of dots to deliver us the Ultimate Answers.
But can they ultimately tell us any more than the truth?
Director, Drshti Strategic Research Services, India
Shobha Prasad is a career researcher and recreational cartoonist. The former is used to enrich the latter. Shobha can be reached at shobha.p@drshti.com.
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