Like any organic matter, human reconstructs too. Flesh and blood rebuild as per the biological terms. The organic development takes a queue from chaotic manipulations of cellular activities and their metamorphoses. As we look deeper into the whole process, it gets trickier with collective effects sneak in to create a new dimension to the already complex scenario. The result gets different to what it was supposed to happen as per the scientific know-how.

Human attains this state daily and ignores the subtle aspects of their evolution. Well, who has intention or even capacity to record such a big data to put for analyses. Perhaps, the evolution happens on a bigger scale compared to a human life. Again, is there no possibility of existence of the underlying ingredients for human evolution - the power to reconstruct? You may shout at me - why I am repeating a “re” at each instance of “construction”!

I am aware of this, and still insist. The process of each reconstruction takes the state away from its own and that is why evolution happens. The collective phenomenon prevails in this exotic process of life.

An entreprise is built upon dynamic process of communications and collaborations - it is not about just people. It functions in a collaborative environment, and significant amount of effort goes towards sharing of information and action performed based on it. This process requires creation, review and tracking of reports and significant data.

With a host of outsourcing models being in action and managers along with workers going mobile, dependence on flexible but accountable information systems is a must. An obiquitous existence of Internets and Extranets have been an indicator to this. Today, a business development manager spends more time at client’s place with ease as all information and tools are at their fingertips as they are connected to corporate Intranet/Extranet. He/she can be in constant touch with their product manager who is working at their corporate office. A small discount on a particular product can instantly be communicated to the business development executives to have an edge over competition. In a similar fashion, the product manager can review the status on a small patch to the product prepared by his/her development team located in a different part on the globe.

If communication is happening quickly and effectively, and if the collaboration is seamless irrespective of locational disparities of departments, we say that the entreprise collaborates well.

When I delve deep into the interplay of technological efforts and babelian disparities among technology vendors, it looks a chaotic transition of the state of Web from one to another. And the transition is quite volatile that the process towards an equilibrium can have cascading effect to settle in an unexpected state.

We welcome any technology that comes in our way, and start creating applications around it. Huge documentation follows with a number of websites created to highlight the same. Freelancers and small business houses start building business around any single idea. New economy is created and communities are built up in their own ways. Many virtual civilizations, unaware of each others, grow up in months.

Big companies take up a few ideas and create another version of a platform or a product to popularise it with a billion dollar marketing budget. Even companies will not stop to add another web browser to this already overcrowded browser-baskets. A small innovation can make a big news if publicity is well organized.

We are basically trying to create our own language to speak and everybody separately. The communication process is becoming increasingly difficult and a big economy is even growing to ensure interoperability and inter-communication capabilities. Does it look funny? But it is true with Web 2.0.

Where is an intention to crowdsource the already working platform or product? Innovation can never be Innovation2.0 with Web2.0. In fact, we are 2 down zero now!

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Every mission to Mars had started with wild expectations, and ended with few facts and disastrous failures. However, with each failure, the agency has learnt immensely about process, approach, and management. The current mission with Phoenix has been headed by Peter Smith is a collaborative effort by government, academics and industry.

The mission envisages to explore the history of water on the red planet and habitable conditions in its arctic region. View a video giving details of the mission to Mars.

I have grown listening to Shankar-Jaikishan music. I still remember when Shankar left this mundane world twenty-one years ago. I was studying in Class IX when I visited the homeopathic clinic of my uncle along with my father. I saw them going into a very engaged discussion immediately, and was curious to know what happened. When my father identified my curiosity, he called me and pointed to a small item on the front page of an Oriya newspaper. It read Famous Music Composer Shankar Is Dead.

Oh, then I understood the gloomy atmosphere there, and could understand most of the discussion. I was shocked as I had listened to my one of the most favourite song “Sunle Mere Payal…” from movie “Sasural” in the evening of the previous day. We, both father and son, had discussed the zing of music from Shankar-Jaikishan.

For us, an era had ended!

With the initial success of Web 2.0, the essence of this set of useful technology tools have penetrated the hard-shell of scientific collaboration and publishing process. The ubiquitous things like tags, social networks, and blogs have created a new dimension to the approach of scientific publishing. Popularly called Science 2.0, the new approach facilitates publishing raw results of research and a broader platform for collaborative research.

On one hand, a section of the scientific community hails this phenomenon as a natural progression whereas others treat this as a major source of controversies about retention of patent and intellectual copyrights. There have been quite a few websites that have started using this approach whereas major print journals have started adding Web 2.0 tools to their websites. Anyway, Science 2.0 has already been here.

This new approach revolves round the principle of open access, and is perceived as more productive. Going by arguments of numerous open discussions and continual refinements by the scientific community through the last several centuries, this approach, crowdsourcing, reaffirms our unchanged direction of accumulating scientific knowledge.

The obvious pitfall in this approach is the possibility of premature exposure of research ideas and findings, thereby, resulting in breach in intellectual property rights if rival researchers exploit the situation. This may also result in hard-feeling among the genuine researchers and may jeopardise the basic safety and genuine assessment of patents.

The Buddhist monasteries in this historic region of China have been tense in the recent days due to another phase of conflict between Tibetans and Han nationals. A fear psyche is prevalent on the roof of the world due to probable violent consequences of seeking larger autonomy from the benevolent dragon.

Theocratic head of Tibet in exile, Dalai Lama, is seeking greater level of autonomy, and is arguing in favour of cultural and religious freedom for the people who are believed to have been originated from a monkey and a female demon as per legend. Marxist government of China, though has been greatly liberal since two decades, is still being viewed with suspicion in spite of their many efforts in bringing modern education and contemporary social life to this highly superstitious Himalayan territory.

With China establishing itself as a formidable economic and military power, global powers are unusually silent over the current impasse. The situation, however critical, can never be considered to fall along the axis of evils in the eyes of western powers. Any circumstance leading to gulf like situation is certainly ruled out. However, everybody is observing at the hectic diplomatic process with keen interest due to the grand sports event, Olympics, this year.

I was having chat over tea with my friend. We were in relaxed mood, and were trying to beat hot summer outside hiding in a couch in the air-conditioned room of restaurant. We were waiting for Masala tea with honey! The gorgeous lady was smiling, and was indicating that we can have our turn at anytime soon.

My friend, who was working in a small company, brought an interesting character to discussion. He started describing a colleague from his company with an unmatched passion ignoring the impending warm drink that was our favourite in this way-side restaurant.

“She knows how to talk — a great report writer” - he quipped. The person, he was describing, probably had an uncanny skill of using words and to impress upon the little boss in that little company. He continued - “I must tell that she is the best salesman but sits in an armchair with a buraucratic responsibility in the company.”

I was getting impatient as the one-side briefing continued abated. “How does that affect you? It is the company and its boss, your boss, should ponder”, I remarked.

My friend looked at me mischivously and replied: - “I am in the same boat that has a titanic destination! The whole team is making an ignorant preparation for disaster.” He was not stopping and was expressing his frustration overtly. I was getting serious. I was imagining the situation and was trying to put myself in his shoes.

“It is unfortunate that this happens, but this is not surprising as we are part of a greater human dynamics. We believe, understand and carry prejudice in the way we perceive. So, it is not an exception where there is a selfish, williful individual uses behavourial manipulation with adequate emotional quotient to dominate workplace without doing any work at all.” — I was pouring my thoughts.

We are agreeing though our perception might be different over the whole situation. The agreement had been strengthened with the warmth of tea the smailing lady served a few minutes ago.

“Quit that company!” - I suggested as I was adding more sugar to sweeten my tea further. I was asserting my maturity, and was trying to help my friend out of this muddy situation. The smoke from cup was moisting my wide eyes as I was staring at him.

There has been many instances when a person thinks that the world moves around him or her. A city lad thinks that his street is his world with his residence at the centre, a hospital at one corner and his school at the other. He goes berserk if told about a beautiful village nearby. Well, a more mom-lapped boy may glue to TV at home to boast of his knowledge about the world – hmmm, it is about a place shown on Animal Planet channel or a test match played on a beach with cute girls clapping and going berserk? Mind it – I am not going the English dictionary way, rather following it literally!

I come across people in corporate showing a manipulated certificate to climb the career-ladder. They go berserk if reminded of their ghastly act, and then give a profuse lecture on numerous such prevailing occurrences around the globe. I come across people in various fields, infected by wilful lady-influence, going berserk to throw their whole achievement into waste-bin in a span of few days. They justify their perception filtered with a romantic coloured glass, and rush to live in a dream-land.

I go berserk knowing that somebody has been contaminated with this fatal disease, but cannot justify spending time in such infected environment. I don’t get the thrust of Mother Teresa to change the condition, but rather push myself outwards to get fresh air. I simply tell, “Why do you go berserk?”, and quip, “I shall now quit!”