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Two sides to technology
This last edition of Tech Tales revisits the past 20 columns which described the myriad applications of technology, the exciting ...
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Eyes in the street
PEGASUS no longer has wings and is dead in the media. One refers not to the winged horse from Greek ...
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Why scientific temper matters
NEVER before has science touched the lives of more people than it has in the last few months. “Touched,” literally: ...
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Small tech, big benefits
TECHNOLOGY. The word conjures up near-magic, which creates gadgets and means for enriching and transforming our lives. Inevitably, it is ...
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Travel on the cusp of big change
COMMUNICATE, don’t commute, advised Arthur Clarke. This famous aphorism-cum-prediction of the well-known futurist and sci-fi writer, made many decades ago, ...
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Business in Songbola times
Business in Songbola times COVID with its lockdowns has resulted in many changes, challenges and opportunities. From the ...
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The three D’s of digitization
DEMATERIALIZATION is a staple in many a sci-fi film: an object or person is zapped by a beam-gun and, poof, ...
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The highs and lows of tech
Over the past few months, gloom and doom prophecies have gained many followers — with good reason. A virus, COVID-19, ...
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Your post-COVID life
DESPITE the many divergences on issues related to the pandemic, there is one on which there is a consensus: the ...
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The new workplaces
A description of our present situation could well be “so near and yet so far”. Locked-in and in quasi-quarantine, we ...
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Cut out the space tech drama
Mllions of Indians stayed awake all night on September 6-7, 2019, eyes glued to their TV sets. It was not, ...
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The end of anonymity
The rhetorical ‘don’t-you-know-who-I-am’ question, part of the armoury of the sons and daughters of Delhi VIPs when accosted for an infringement ...
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Innovate to prosper
Innovate, patent, produce and prosper. This was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s message to young scientists at the Indian Science Congress ...
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In the midst of a transition
Few, if any, would contest this assertion — “technology has radically altered how we live.” Yet, it is worth analysing ...
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In schools, basics still matter
Indians are known to value education. Traditionally, the learned — especially the teacher, the guru — have been much respected, ...
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Devices for a healthy India
May you live a hundred years is a traditional Indian blessing, underlying which is the thought of being healthy enough ...
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Drones, AI for better farms
Agriculture is now a comparatively small and decreasing part of India’s economy, accounting for just about 15 percent of the ...
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The devil in data
Data is the new oil is a currently popular aphorism. To the extent that it connotes a resource of great ...
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