On the Tuesday of 3rd April 1973, Martin Cooper, then an engineer at the Motorola Inc, stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey. This was not just a normal call, for it was the world’s first handheld cellular phone call. Prior to that time, mobile telephony was limited to huge phones installed in cars and other vehicles. Using a prototype of what would later become the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x, the world’s first commercial cell phone, Mr. Cooper stood near a 900 MHz base station…

Picture this; xyz bank (or any other organization) hires the crème de la crème of IT graduates and Information Security experts, takes them through a thorough systems security and incident management trainings, and to cap it all, the organization has employed state of the art cyber security solutions available in the market. Now, we can say that xyz bank is beyond any possible breach of their systems; Right? Wrong! I will tell you why an organization that only invests in its IT, OT and security infrastructure and personnel…

Computers, like clothes, come in many different types, sizes, colors and from different manufacturers. Moreover, the specificities involved in identifying the kind of computer you want from an electronics store needs one to be armed with some finer details. Failure to this, many people have found themselves with devices that fall far below what they had expected, after parting with huge sums of money and letting the store keepers decide for them. They always regret for such mistake. Therefore whether you are thinking of getting yourself a laptop, a desktop, a notebook, a tablet…

As phones become more powerful and intelligent, it is unfortunate that some of their users especially the young generation think that the only use of a smart phone is taking ‘selfies’ and chatting, and perhaps posting ‘not-so-good’ images on social media. During this ‘stay-at-home’ period, one thing that for sure is constantly within the reach of each of us is our phones, most of which are smart-phones. I am very sure that our scientists would not have labored for ages to improve Nokia 2210 had they known that their invention (smart phones) will be so misused and underused…

I have been mulling something over for the last few weeks. It is as fascinating as it is scary. I have finally decided to put it down on this platform, one so that we can all share this burden of thought, and two, to stimulate my fellow scientists’ and tech enthusiasts’ thinking on this particular subject. You will agree with me that the thought of something wiping us from the Lord’s green earth is too awful to contemplate. It is disturbing, to say the least. Yet it is a possibility that should not be ignored. In this short article, I will tell you why am both excited and scared as I think these things through…