T.T.T

If you are wondering what the title means, then wait no long, go ahead and read to find out the answer. It means Time Traveling Terminator. Before you go any further in this post you need to know and understand who The Terminator is, and why is he trying to kill Sarah Connor!!!

To sum it all up, in the future, the world is taken over by Skynet which controls all the machines and uses them to destroy anything and everything that comes in their way. There is human resistance that fights back the machines to regain control, under the leadership of John Connor, son of the aforementioned, Sarah Connor. Somehow John Connor is the key to winning the war against machines and Skynet realizes it and sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor (SC) before she can even conceive John Connor (JC), the chosen one.

There are too many loop holes to the plot but let us not dwell into those. The one I am interested in, is the level of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Skynet uses in trying to eliminate the threat. Since finding JC is out of question, Skynet does the only sane thing any AI device would do, send a terminator back in time. Now I have a problem with that.

If Skynet can send someone back in time, why would it just send one termiantor, and that too to kill JC's mother SC. With all the machines at it's disposal it could have sent a small platoon of terminators increasing its chances of succeeding. Also, when the first terminator failed to kill SC why would it send the next terminator to a later time in SC's life. If the terminator could not kill SC given the time and technology, what made it think that the second terminator will be any successful in a later time when it has to deal with both SC and JC and advanced time and technology. I have started to think that Skynet's AI has a very high learning curve as the only logical option would be to send the terminator further back in time which would give him a technological advantage, to kill SC's parents before they can conceive her. Even better send a terminator even further back in time to kill the ancestral male and female who are responsible for the lineage that will ultimately result in the birth of SC and thus, JC.

Here is the mother of all ideas, send every machine/terminator to post Cretaceous period, identify the dwellings of primates and terminate ever primate that tries to leave the trees to set its foot on the ground thus removing any scope for millions of years of evolution of mankind. I bet your AI can't come up with an idea like that in a million years Skynet!!

R-Evolution

No, this is not about Earth's revolution around the sun, nor it is about the revolutions that have happened throughout the history of time, all in the name of bringing change to the prevailing sociopolitical scenarios. This is about evolution or rather reverse evolution or devolution.

It all started one day when early Homo erectus based in Africa, discovered the edge stone tools gave him in defending and hunting, which were primarily used by his ancestor Homo habillis  for cleaving and tearing meat off  dead animals. "What a bunch of morons!! No wonder they were a staple diet for  Dinofelis and eventually became extinct.", he thought.

Now he had to convey his thoughts to his social group. There was a problem. The existing screams,grunts, howls and gestures were very basic and inadequate for such sophisticated communication. He had to come up with a new set of sounds which would communicate his thoughts to others, and then he will have to come up with another set of sounds to communicate the new sounds he has come up with to communicate his thoughts. This laid foundation to an epic saga of enhancing communication to accommodate new thoughts, ideas and feelings that spanned epochs of evolution, which evolved into the modern day spoken and written languages  with their syntax, spellings and semantics. True Story!!!

When the evolution of communication was at its peak, the language spoken or written used to strictly adhere to the spellings and semantics of sentence construction and any minor deviation was considered atrocious. At this point communication was free in the sense, nobody was charged for speaking or writing their mind, not in the form of money at least. The problem with reaching the highest peak is that, there is only one way to go, down, and so, began the evolution of tools to communicate, starting with printing press to mail to telegram to telephones that enabled man to overcome the limitation of geographical locations. Then came internet turning the world into one global village. This was the golden age for communication with all sorts of languages reaching their pinnacle and people basked in their grandeur, until the invention of mobile/cellular phones and internet chat.

While internet chat enabled the users to talk(type) with multiple online friends, it made typing whole sentences and expressing their ideas to multiple audiences a bit difficult. The ones who could type really fast got away with it but the ones who couldn't, had to resort to other ways. Soon phrases and feelings were reduced to acronyms like, "BRB" (Be Right back), LOL (Laugh Out Loud), and words have been replaced by letters that sounded similar like, "C" (See), "U" (You). Thus began the colossal slaughtering of languages by  countless hordes of chatters chatting away using various IMs and chat rooms.

 If internet chat destroyed the structure of languages, mobile phones pillaged the remains of these structures with SMS "Short Message Service" with a limit of 90 letters per message. The aim here is to communicate your ideas/emotions/thoughts within the given word limit and  to achieve this, all rules had to be broken, spellings plundered, grammar ravaged and the very fibre that built the language is torn to pieces like an angry kid tearing away anything and everything that he can lay his hands on.

People started omitting vowels, shortening words, ignoring articles, misplacing prepositions, forgetting conjunctions and interjections, and changed sentences into meaningless jumble of letters and numbers, here are some examples.

1.  R U BZ  --------------> Are you busy?

2. 2GTBT   --------------> Too good to be true

3. Itz getin l8, letz meet 2mrw ------------>It is getting late, let us meet tomorrow

Eventually ppl wl *t tlkn lke dis n fucha genr8tns wl contribute in stripping down languages  further to their bare minimums until all that will be left are weird sounds, grunts, howls, and gestures, reversing all the evolutionary changes of communication spanning multiple epochs, and sending it back to the dark ages. Well, so much for trying to improve the language for communicating your thoughts Mr. Homo Erectus!!!