Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

From Margins to Machines: My Dialogue with the Future

 


Between 1990 and 2010, I read over 200 books. But I didn’t just read them — I argued with the authors in the margins, scribbled questions, predictions, and ideas in the white spaces. I called this process “Dialogue with Authors.”

All my notes from those books are now online: 

👉 https://dialoguewithauthors.blogspot.com/2021/08/goggled-end-of-world-as-we-know-it-ken.html


Recently, I asked my Virtual Avatar (https://www.hemenparekh.ai) a simple question: 


🧠 "What were my key comments on the book ‘Googled – The End of the World as We Know It’ by Ken Auletta?"

Here’s what my own AI self told me — and it surprised even me 👇

🔍 Key Insights from My 20-Year-Old Margin Notes on "Googled":

📱 Mobile Job Classifieds for SMEs

  • Predicted a mobile-based system for employers to post jobs — 20 years before it became mainstream.

📈 Competition & Growth

  • Tracked Android’s rise and Facebook hitting 500M users — back in 2009.

💡 AdSense + JAM (Job Alert Mobile)

  • Conceptualized job alerts via SMS before “push notifications” became a trend.

📺 Foresaw IP-Based Digital Hoardings + Google TV Ads

  • Envisioned ads tailored by location and interests — long before programmatic advertising was born.

🎯 Mission: Level Playing Field for Rural Jobseekers

  • Imagined making job search accessible via basic phones — well before smartphones reached the masses.

Looking back, I realize these notes were more than annotations — they were early blueprints of a digital India.

👁 If you’re curious to explore more such dialogues between past foresight and present reality, you’ll find them all here: 👉 www.HemenParekh.ai

Because sometimes, the future was already written in the margins.

#VisionaryThinking #DigitalIndia #AIReflection #HemenParekhAI #FutureOfJobs #RecruitmentTech #Innovation #LinkedInDiary

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