As you read these words, how does your screen make them appear as black marks on a white background. If your monitor has a display resolution of 1920 x 1080, what do those numbers mean?
When you ride a bus or a train, a screen or a recorded voice automatically prompts you when your stop arrives. How does that work? How does the subway car know that it has arrived a few hundred feet below the parliament building?
How does the supermarket know how much bread to stock – which brands, varieties and where to stock them? When 5 tables in a large restaurant order mushroom masala, how does your waiter not mix these orders up? How do you program traffic lights in a junction to go off and on efficiently?
I don’t know the answer to several of those questions, but I am certain that I would enjoy and benefit from exploring each one of them.
When it comes to exploration, breadth is overrated. Depth is neglected, but that is where most of the value lies.
Observations 