Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) Netflix At a time when most people could hardly read, write or count, people like Charles Babbage (1791- 1871) and Ida Lovelace (1815-1852) were working on something totally irrelevant to their time. Babbage is course credited for the general-purpose computer, and Lady Lovelace is said to have written the first computer algorithm. Laypersons would have scorned upon them, thinking that they were weirdos living in their own dream world. Nobody would have thought that an infallible self-calculating machine was even possible, what more writing computer programmes? Like that, many go on doing things in their lives, thinking that the thing that they do is the reason for their existence. But who really knows what is your raison d'être ? Surely there is no laid roadmap given to us upon birth. Things that you do in childhood, the upbringing that you had, the friends that you cross path with and develop bonds all determine the direction of life and the ca...
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