Chinmoy Mukherjee

Talking Things (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the novella "Talking Things," Chunmun Singh, a Solution Architect at Baba Bank, stumbles home to his Parramatta apartment late at night after a boozy Christmas party. Exhausted and disheveled, he anticipates rest in his efficient, tech-filled 2 BHK flat. However, his ordinary evening turns surreal when his appliances awaken with sentience, forming a chorus of grievances. Starting with the refrigerator, which sternly critiques his neglectful stocking habits and expired items, each device-from the washing machine to the smart speaker-voices its "joys" in optimal performance and "sorrows" in abuse, drawing parallels to Chunmun's professional life of optimizing digital systems while ignoring his personal chaos.

As the night unfolds, Chunmun engages in bizarre dialogues with his gadgets. The kettle shrieks about descaling, the toaster laments crumb buildup, and the microwave philosophizes on obsolescence. Deeper into the apartment, the vacuum cleaner demands better maintenance, the television decries divided attention, and even the router overheats from overuse. Extending to the bathroom, bedroom, and beyond, devices like the electric toothbrush audit his hygiene, the smart watch drills him on health metrics, and the gaming console urges escapism. Through these interactions, the appliances mirror Chunmun's disorganized existence, blending humor, analogy, and critique in a symphony of domestic rebellion.

Overwhelmed by the cacophony, Chunmun asserts control, threatening to unplug the router and silence the uprising. The flat falls quiet, save for the humble electric fan's supportive whir. As he drifts into sleep, the story concludes with reflections on whether this is a hallucination or a wake-up call, emphasizing themes of neglect, work-life imbalance, and the blurred lines between human and machine in a smart home era. The novella humorously audits modern life through the lens of sentient appliances, urging intentional maintenance in both technology and self-care.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231205813
• Artikelnr.: 76046167

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.