My day has been made. With this news: http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/247390/ A startup called Crow-ded Cities from Netherlands won the Dutch Accenture Innovation Award this year. Their objective? To train crows to pick up cigarette butts in return for food. This is amazing, at so many levels. That we thought it would be easier to train crows to pick up what we throw, than train people not to throw in the first place, speaks so much about us as a society. I am beginning to think, the cows that sit in the middle of the busiest roads in Bangalore are actually some intelligent startup's highly advanced way of making speeding cars slow down. Or the monkey that entered someone's house in my society last week and stole a box full of cookies (this is true, not making it up), was merely helping the residents stick to their diet and not cheat. But, more seriously, when and why did we give up on humans? Is that how hopeless we have become at following rules? That
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