The systems that we have — they are very easily controllable, which means there will be greater power in the hands of those owning the tech companies. As technology progresses, everything that you do is going to be watched. So, there is no way you will have privacy — or at least an assurance of privacy — of the old kind. The only thing that can safeguard you is a clean inside. You need not have stuff that you have to very, very diligently guard and that makes you vulnerable. Only that can help you.
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Divya Wadhwa: Let's talk about something that we all are mindlessly doing without putting our mind to it. We're scrolling our phones for no rhyme or reason. You know, whether you're sitting in a car, whether you're waiting at a doctor's clinic — no matter where you are, you're always on your phone. How do you feel about this addiction to social media platforms? Do you feel it's making us smarter as far as AI is concerned — whether artificial intelligence is making us smarter? Or do you think it's making us more dumb day by day?
Acharya Prashant: It depends on you — to what use you want to put these things. Social media is the entire universe, right? Of the 8-odd billion people on the planet, more than 5 billion are there on social media — and that’s outdated. Must be 6 billion now. So practically everybody is on social media. It depends on who you want to connect to and who you want to sit with.
Divya Wadhwa: But do you feel we are making our choices on our own, or is our phone making our choices for us?
