ARIHANT travels
EAST ?
Some 2,500 years ago , India witnessed the presence of
two great teachers , Gautam Buddha and Arihant Mahavira , both of whom preached
non – violence ( Ahimsa ) / peace and harmonious living, not only among the
humans but extended to all creatures on the earth
Both are believed to be contemporaries , who lived in 5
BCE and travelled widely through India to spread Buddhism and Jainism
There is no historical record of Buddha ever having
travelled abroad but over the following centuries , Buddhism spread beyond the
borders of India and travelled east to reach as far as Japan and China , where
it became a dominant religion . Even now , there are millions of Buddhists in
China
Neither did Arihant Mahavira leave the shores of India and Jainism
( his preaching ) remained confined to India . Until now !
It seems , after 25 centuries , ARIHANT has just
reached China !
For context , here is an indication :
Extract :
Residents of Shenzhen don’t dare jaywalk.
Since April 2017, this city in China’s Guangdong province has
deployed a rather intense technique
to deter jaywalking.
Anyone who crosses
against the light will find their face, name, and part of their government ID
number displayed on a large LED screen above the intersection, thanks to facial
recognition devices all over the city.
If that feels invasive, you don’t even know the half of it.
Now, Motherboard reports
that a Chinese artificial intelligence company is partnering
the system with mobile carriers, so that offenders receive a text message
with a fine as soon as they are caught.
The system is just one
cog in the vast
surveillance machine that the
Chinese government has been building over the last several years.
Its aim is in part public safety
and security, but the
information on citizens’ whereabouts and activities will also feed into China’s national social
credit system
The social credit system, which will roll out in 2020, is intended to rate individuals according to a national scoring
system for how trustworthy
a citizen each person is.
Citizens with a low score might be refused
certain jobs, pay more for certain services, and according to China’s National
Development and Reform Commission, even be banned
from traveling.
According to Fortune, that travel restriction could kick in from a wide range of
offenses, from spreading fake information about terrorism to smoking
on the train.
It seems China has cobbled together , an early version of
ARIHANT (
- a hardware / software / communication / AI based , technology platform which I
conceptualized in my following blogs :
FastForward to Future ( 3 F ) [ 20 Oct 2016
]
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