Ranjith’s Castle

I was stopped by a signal in Chennai at a mile away. The traffic is so huge on my side that the vehicles are moving at snail’s pace. When I reached the signal, I noticed that the amount of traffic flow from the side from which I am traveling is much larger than the once flowing from the different artery. The roads are such that this information of the traffic imbalance is not visible to the police men. As a result, the signal and the policemen showed no difference in the traffic regulation. It was the same time sliced flow. The data is not passed on to the correct place to act upon.

I also thought this seems to be a good idea for writing a product using all software and sensors to notify the police men at the signal and the signal as well to regulate or time the flow from each side according to the traffic flow rate.

Products apart, I feel this is the same situation with respect to the Human living. Our knowledge about our co-humans reduce as we go out and out in the concentric circles. Mani commented some time back that the affinity of our living and the decisions we take will be at the benefit of the people at the inner concentric circles. Yes this seems to be true that we are getting blinder and after some time it will be dark, as we don’t have data from the outer circles.

Cheers - Ranjith