From Smart Fridges to Shaktimaan: Teleporting Through Time
A conversation about smart fridges led us down memory lane—into Doordarshan days, superhero capes, and love letters. Here’s how one moment of tech talk turned into a full-blown nostalgia trip… Illustration: A smart fridge meets Shaktimaan in a time-traveling tribute to tech and nostalgia Teleportation may not be real yet, but conversations? They go places – fast. It all began with a colleague asking if my new refrigerator was installed. Another one chimed in, saying her son had read about fridges that interact with users—warning them before running out of stock. None of us had seen one yet, but we nodded in agreement. With AI and APIs evolving, it's no longer impossible. A refrigerator might soon do more than just cool and store—it could even place orders for restocking. That’s how rapidly Artificial Intelligence is changing our world. We can only imagine, as far as our imagination can stretch, what the future might look like. I said, “We’ll see things we can’t even ima...