·Digital transformation
When We Stopped Taking Things Apart
How abstraction, AI, and frictionless systems may be reshaping confidence, cognition, and first-principles thinking
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Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
Technology And The Future
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·Digital transformation
Maps, History, and Finding the Throughline
AI-driven, multi-layered maps could change how we understand power, culture, and the choices future generations will inherit
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Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Not the Pilot’s Fault: Inside the First 61 Seconds of AI171
A small turbine and a flicker of light tell a different story.
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
AI171: Human Error, Design Flaw, or Something Else?
The mystery lives on. But now we have facts
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Part 3: Unraveling AI 171: The Search for What Really Went Wrong
The mystery is not just about what happened—but why? And how can it be prevented in the future? The third and concluding part of a three part series
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Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
·Digital transformation
Embracing AI without losing ourselves
As the machines are advancing relentlessly, do we let AI think for us, or do we stay actively human?
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Digital transformation
AI in Academia: The Grind, the Gain, and the Great Recalibration
Rather than fighting the use of AI in the classroom, it’s time to reimagine the real goals of learning and teaching
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Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
·Digital transformation
The Age of Information
Insights from Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
When India made its first computer
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) had a pivotal role in shaping India’s computer-tech capability, as early as the 1960s. An extract from ‘Against All Odds: The IT Story of India’ by Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu and Krishnan Narayanan
FF
Founding Fuel
·Digital transformation
FF Insights 712: Tech & the three crises facing humanity
August 8, 2022: SuperSable, Problem with Instagram?, Gender and physics
FF
Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Life and the universe
The James Webb Space Telescope and how it’s going to change our lives
FF
Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Science fiction and the simulations of our future(s)
December 11, 2021 | FF Daily #546: FF Recommends 10 sci-fi novels
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TG Shenoy
Creative Director | Publicis Business/Leo Burnett
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Facebook’s new avatar in 10 images
Renaming Facebook as Meta indicates a big bet on the metaverse, as well as an “escape hatch” from the issues and scrutiny Facebook has been facing. The entire industry is at the beginning of a big wave and Mark Zuckerberg has been building capacity for some years now. However, the key to Meta’s success will depend on whether and how fast customers adopt it to work, learn, play, build and live.
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Digital transformation
FF Daily #319: A Jio OS?
March 10, 2021: The limits of what data can tell you; How to make the robot dance; The inevitable future
FF
Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
FF Daily #293: The future doesn’t need us
February 8, 2021: The story of Old Monk Rum; Covid-19 in the post pandemic world; Prevention is better
FF
Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The Oxford vaccine & potato chips; edtech & WhiteHat Jr; Windows 1
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 25, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Platforms & Data Economy
Ecommerce in festive season; China’s tech war; Investing in disruptive tech
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 21, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Platforms & Data Economy
Should the world be worried about Chinese tech?
China's growing tech prowess, access to Big Data, and its expanding digital footprint gives it a strategic advantage—in espionage and surveillance, in global finance, and global trade. All of which will play a decisive role in determining China’s role in international politics and business. Read part 2 of this two-part article
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The US-China war for tech supremacy is splitting the world in two
It’s important for India to understand the Sino-US ‘techonomic’ rivalry in emerging technologies like AI, 5G, and IoT, and China’s efforts to carve out a sphere of influence. So that it can tweak its own relationship with China. Read part one of this two-part essay
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G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
·Digital transformation
Google tax; An air quality solution; How to think about AI
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 1, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
A chip in the head
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink demoed a chip-sized brain implant that could help humans do much more. Here’s why I want one
CA
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Digital transformation
Luminar IPO & Spacs, Tatas super app, and GM mosquitoes
This Week in Disruptive Tech | August 26, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Sandith Thandasherry and what it takes to run a boat on solar power
This Week in Disruptive Tech | July 29, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
How to experiment for the new new world
This Week in Disruptive Tech | June 24, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Platforms & Data Economy
GoSocial, facial recognition and laws, deepfakes
This Week in Disruptive Tech | June 17, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Platforms & Data Economy
Can Jio scale its apps; from rough sketch to photo-real; automation’s limits
This Week in Disruptive Tech | June 10, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
SpaceX launch; internet and free speech; one nation, one card
Disruptive Tech Weekly | June 03, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Picasso and the race to develop coronavirus vaccine
The amazing ability of living systems to respond to the abstract might help scientists find vaccines for coronavirus faster than before. Plus a roundup of the global effort to minimise the spread of the disease
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The ambitious and their enemies
January 07, 2020: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Oyo’s pitfalls on the fast track, He Jiankui and gene editing, Facebook’s efforts to build an operating system, micro-mobility, and Digital India's tech gaps
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The promise and perils of breakthroughs
November 09, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Drones, quantum computing, and gene editing
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Why things fail
September 15, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: MIT & Epstein; genetically modified mosquitoes; cure for AIDS; man-machine interface, and Big Tech in elections
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The long play
September 8, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Chandrayaan 2, Jio’s business plan, deepfakes, artificial intelligence, and the problem with Big Data
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The man and the machine
August 19, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: AI-assisted app development, solar roads, biofuels, micro ATMs and brain-AI integration
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Digital transformation
Technology is politics
July 3, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Huawei, AltSchool, Sidewalk Labs, Chernobyl and mobile market
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
What, me trust?
June 24, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Deepfakes, Facebook’s Libra, CRISPR, Slack IPO and Oxford University
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The cobra effect and other stories
June 8, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Clean energy, AI ethics, Facebook, gene editing and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Platforms & Data Economy
The hyperlocal WhatsApp strategy, policy windows and AI food tasters
May 10, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. Also in this issue: gene editing to prevent heart attack, and what North Korea's radio-tochkas show us about Big Tech's privacy violations
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Platforms & Data Economy
The future of food, social media platforms and facial recognition
April 27, 2019: A roundup of news and perspectives on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Sri Lanka’s social media ban, Beyond Meat IPO, facial recognition, employee activism, robot rights and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Bias, fixing brains, and the difficulty of regulating tech
April 20, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Regulatory sandboxes; brain implants and genetic engineering; and AI bias
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Exploring black holes, space, and mapping Earth
April 14, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: the science behind the black hole photo; how Facebook is mapping Earth; private rocket science; data and privacy; the future of jobs; and EVs path to profitability
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
The bias in technology
April 06, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Tech’s complicated relationship with government; robots, drones and anti-drones; and environmentally cool food
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Managing yourself, and the world
March 26, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Enhancing human performance, designing for the future, consent brokers
NR
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Technology’s unintended consequences
Feb 26, 2019: A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology. In this issue: Microsoft employees question how their work is used, why lab-grown meat may not be a panacea, and China's CRISPR twins may end up with unintended modifications
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
A mission to solve grand challenges
Grand challenges that bring together government, universities and industry, can solve near future problems using technologies innovatively
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N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO | itihaasa Research and Digital
·Digital transformation
The best of ’17
This week: Making sense of technology, innovating for India, and our best stories in 2017
FF
Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
Disruptive tech: There’s hope for the future. But fear too
We are facing an avalanche of disruptive technologies. But adapting to change will not be easy. Sometimes it will even seem traumatic. Some insights from Vivek Wadhwa with Alex Salkever's book ‘The Driver in the Driverless Car’
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
This week in disruptive tech—March 7, 2017
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Facebook’s algorithm to spot suicidal tendencies, Elon Musk’s moon mission and blockchains
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Digital transformation
Interview with Robert Tercek on Vaporization, a software-defined society
Robert Tercek, futurist and author of the book 'Vaporized', talks about how digital technology pushes us towards a software-defined society
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CKGSB Knowledge
Knowledge Partner
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
This week in disruptive tech—August 19, 2016
A roundup of news and perspective on disruptive technology from around the world. In this issue: Can technology tackle trolls and disinformation, Pepper the “emotional” robot, personalised learning through AltSchool, and more
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Deep Tech & Frontier Science
What the world of tomorrow might look like
Curated tweets from the WorldFuture 2016 conference held in Washington DC from July 22 to 24, 2016
KA
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
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