Shahjahan Kabir Khan
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The Art of Standing Still: Why Doing Nothing Might Be the Smartest Thing You’ll Ever Do
The Cult of Constant Motion Above everything else, our culture places activity. Commonly regarded is that you are falling behind if you are not actively engaged in shifting, scrolling, publishing, or generating. Maintaining busy is seen as a moral necessity; being passive suggests feebleness and taking a rest is wrong.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan2 months ago in Psyche
The Quantum Awakening: How Google’s Velo Chip Just Redefined the Limits of Reality
For decades, the idea of quantum computing lived in the realm of theory—an elegant fantasy confined to whiteboards and science journals. Engineers and physicists dreamt of machines that could harness the strange, unpredictable laws of the quantum world. But until now, that dream seemed distant.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan2 months ago in Futurism
Scrolling Through the Void: How Social Media Quietly Emptied Our Minds
We little observe the fast, practically instinctive flick of our thumb now. Reading. This happens while we are traveling on public transportation, waiting in line at supermarkets, having brief thoughts, and even in between breaths. Eventually the silent voids in our lives became intolerable, therefore we filled them with noises, notifications, and a nonstop stream with no beginning or finish.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan2 months ago in Confessions
The Fragile Empire of Truth: How Misinformation Became the World’s New Currency
Once, truth appeared unbending; it was recorded in writing, carried by reliable sources, and based on a general agreement. Truth is currently evolving. It branches, twists, and breaks into many paths, each of which fits with our prejudices, worries, and predispositions.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan2 months ago in Journal
The Day the Machines Stopped: How China Turned Sanctions into a Semiconductor Revolution
Huawei: From “Threat” to Symbol of Innovation For years, Huawei was labeled “the most dangerous company on Earth.” A private company treated as if it were a national adversary, sanctioned, banned, and branded a threat to global security. Headlines framed it as a battle of espionage and politics. Yet beneath the rhetoric, a larger story was unfolding—a story not just about Huawei, but about power, technology, and who would ultimately shape the future.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Journal
The Myth of Progress: Why More Doesn’t Always Mean Better
Over the journey, the word new somehow came to mean better. Every gadget launch, software upgrade, and productivity suggestion carries the same pledge: advancement. We crave movement since it has meaning, hence we chase it out vigorously. Still, it gets harder and more challenging to distinguish if we are genuinely moving forward or if we are simply rotating circles at a rapid pace as things keep moving forward relentlessly.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Confessions
The New Great Game: How Data, Debt, and Influence Replaced Empires
Previously, battlefields determined the destiny of countries. Clear victory enabled empires to grow, flags to be raised, and the military fought territorial battles. In the twenty-first century, though, conventional battle lines have faded. Modern empire builders dress professionally, not militarily. Data, algorithms, and financial pledges are their invisible means of control.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Journal
The Bismuth Awakening: How China’s New Chip Could End Silicon Valley’s 50-Year Reign
For the last five decades, silicon—not precious metals or fossil fuels—has been the sole, barely visible engine behind our existence. From data centers to spacecraft, from the car you drive to the mobile gadget you use, everything depends on little pieces of silicon. It has acted as the foundation of a technological civilization and the invisible drive of human development.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Journal
The Machine’s Mirror: What AI Teaches Us About Ourselves
We once imagined artificial intelligence as a tool — a brilliant assistant, a calculator of impossible complexity, an extension of human logic. But as AI evolves, something unexpected has emerged. The more intelligent machines become, the more clearly they reveal something we never intended to show: us.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Psyche
The Loneliness Paradox: How Connection Made Us More Alone
Feeling alone was simple once: an unfilled area, a phone without activity, a quiet night without anybody to contact. We live today in a universe where loneliness has moved onto the virtual world. Though we are surrounded by screens, flooded with notifications, linked to several people, an increasing number of people describe themselves as lonely.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Confessions
The Algorithmic Republic: When Democracy Runs on Code
Voting, debates, and shared aspirations of the people once defined democracy. Data—particularly, the algorithms that control what we encounter, accept, and spread—characterizes it nowadays. Modern people basically vote every time they like, click, swipe, or share material online; they do not simply cast their ballots at the polling every few years. Unlike conventional voting systems, this invisible architecture has no supervision, openness, or clearly set limits. Welcome to the Algorithmic Republic, where coding has supplanted a constitution—and the people mostly remain unaware of their government.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Journal
The Age of Restlessness: Why We’ve Forgotten How to Be Still
The silence causes an uncomfortable feeling of unease. Grabbing your phone, updating your social media profiles, or checking your alerts—anything to escape the vacuum—is urgent. We refer to this feeling as boredom. But ennui might be more than simply a lack of action. We may have forgotten how to handle the fact that it may reflect our own existence.
By Shahjahan Kabir Khan3 months ago in Psyche
