Technology trends and India

How well is India equipping itself to deal with the way technology is going? There can be existential threats.

Ambassador TP Sreenivasan invited me to his ‘Tea with TPS’ broadcast series. As he is a very knowledgeable and thoughtful man, I expected a challenging and probing series of questions from him, which kept me on my toes. I hope I was able to respond to his queries and observations adequately.

Please watch this wide-ranging 1-hour video that touches on not only blockchain and central bank digital currencies, but also on Yuval Noah Harari, Kazuo Ishiguro and Bill Joy, and their apocalyptic doomsday scenarios, but also on what the pharma industry will do next, and the various digital scams that we see today, and the benefits of digitization and disintermediation.

We also talk about whether and how the Indian State is equipping itself in this new millennium to counter the various threats that technology poses to sovereignty itself; and also how we might take advantage of new technologies for the benefit of Indian citizens and the economic growth of the country.

Please watch!