Writing by Viksit Gaur

1/ As technology, standards, and incentives evolve, all software applications will eventually move to the web -- with the browser serving as the operating system. We are already almost there today. But there are some challenges. 2/ Software today is…

1/ Here’s a thought experiment about the future of the internet. Can we model it as a complex system in the same way we look at human societies and governments in real life? 2/ Humans began as individuals, who had the ability to form progressively…

I grew up in New Delhi in the late 90s on a steady diet of 2600, phrack, BBSes and the EFF. Two of the people I’d read a lot about, and was subsequently very inspired by, were JPB and Mitch Kapor, as founders of the EFF – and I decided one day that I…

Life, as we lead it, is very uncertain. All of the myriad ingredients that constitute our daily existence are nothing but ephemeral experiences, and many wise voices over millennia have spoken about the follies of being too attached to them. As a…

The pursuit of happiness is a very curious goal that modern society has imprinted upon all of us. When asked what we desire most in the world, happiness, along with success, is perhaps at the top of the list. But we must ask ourselves – what does…