PCQuest – October 2020
English | 56 pages | pdf | 11.83 MB
Deep Tech & Rebuild India 2021
We are still currently in the grip of the Covid crisis lockdown. There are two things happening here. First the recession. Second the globe is in the process of a tech upgrade. The first will go. The second will continue, probably with acceleration. That is where India should not be caught behind.
The economy will recover. There will be a rebuilding phase. We should rebuild with the help of Deep Technology which should be embedded in all the layers during the recovery. America rebuilt itself out of the Great Depression to become a genuine superpower. There is no reason why India can’t do something similar.
5G is very capital intensive. It uses higher frequencies which have a shorter range. That means smaller cells and more towers. The way the US built roads in the 1930s, we can build 5G corridors. 5G powers Smart Factories, Smart Homes, Smart Utilities and Smart Vehicles.
Once a new technology comes, the industry adapts it and optimizes it. Industry 4.0 would automatically come instead of it being pushed.
We have entered the era of Online Education. We should make the most of that and upgrade the syllabus, become more contemporary and introduce things like Data Science in a big way.
We can introduce emerging tech like Virtual Reality headsets to optimize learning experiences. That way the teaching of coding from Class 6 onward will be highly beneficial. The data that 1.3 billion Indians generate is huge and the current infrastructure is inadequate to deal with it efficiently. AI can be a great help here. China has used things like facial recognition and AI courts with efficiency. India needs to adapt similar schemes that are suited to our needs.
There is little AI research happening and we are also far behind in futuristic things like Quantum Computing. What if we had A-IITs (for AI) and Q-IITs (for quantum research). AR/VR can be used for training, simulations and knowledge transfer for police and government officials as well as responses to things like natural disasters. With immersive technology, citizens can participate on a large-scale. Digital Reality India?
Jio has had a tie-up with more than a dozen global players and is showing the ambition to be a top global tech company. If we had 4-5 more Indian tech companies do the same, we
could finally have an entrant for the FAANG (Facebook Amazon Apple Netflix Google) club after a few years.
China is down. It is not out. But it may have already passed its peak a few years back. The
2020s could well be India’s decade, but tech will play a large role in that.
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