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A Danish startup wants to take a faster road to thorium and manufacture nuclear reactors by the thousands. Its audacious bet raises a question for India: what happens if the nuclear world changes before Homi Bhabha’s long-term vision is complete?
S. Raghotham
Journalist and strategic analyst
How abstraction, AI, and frictionless systems may be reshaping confidence, cognition, and first-principles thinking
Ajay Chacko
Director | Keya Foods International
AI-driven, multi-layered maps could change how we understand power, culture, and the choices future generations will inherit
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
A small turbine and a flicker of light tell a different story.
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
The mystery lives on. But now we have facts
Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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
Anmol Shrivastava
Entrepreneur, strategist, and technology consultant
When every team has access to the same AI tools, your advantage will be in knowing what wasn’t said
Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
Two years since ChatGPT entered classrooms, students and teachers are already using AI in everyday learning. Official policies may be slow to catch up, but a quiet reckoning is underway—through whispers, workarounds, and growing calls for clarity
Ishani Ray & Ipsita Bandyopadhyay
As the machines are advancing relentlessly, do we let AI think for us, or do we stay actively human?
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Rather than fighting the use of AI in the classroom, it’s time to reimagine the real goals of learning and teaching
Kavi Arasu
Leadership and Talent Development Professional
Whom is an EV best for? What is the viable life of an EV? Do they have resale value? These and more questions answered
Founding Fuel
A guide to owning electric cars and scooters—from ease of use, to running costs, charging networks, reliability, and more
Pranav Srivilasan
Independent consultant and writer
Insights from Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI’
D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
Fintechs bet on data and algos to know the credit-worthiness of the underserved. However, there's a gap in what the data can reveal because of consumer behaviour. Part 3 of a 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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
Founding Fuel
August 8, 2022: SuperSable, Problem with Instagram?, Gender and physics
Founding Fuel
The James Webb Space Telescope and how it’s going to change our lives
Founding Fuel
#Beacon2022 Festival Special: Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani talk about digital hygiene, making tech choices, holding your own in the attention economy, enabling serendipity, cryptocurrency and more
Founding Fuel
March 2, 2022: Yuval Noah Harari on Ukraine, Re-imagining workplaces, A new emotion
Founding Fuel
December 11, 2021 | FF Daily #546: FF Recommends 10 sci-fi novels
TG Shenoy
Creative Director | Publicis Business/Leo Burnett
December 4, 2021 | FF Daily#540: FF Recommends repurposing your old devices
Founding Fuel
November 27, 2021 | FF Daily #534: FF Recommends, go digital
Founding Fuel
November 20, 2021 | FF Daily #528: Advice on what to consider from a user who has researched the options and has used an electric scooter for a couple of years now
C S Swaminathan
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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.
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
November 6, 2021 | FF Daily #516: For seamless access to high-speed, uninterrupted Wi-Fi
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
October 16, 2021 | FF Daily #500: FF Recommends handheld gimbals
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
July 5, 2021: Amartya Sen on bicycles; The anatomy of social media; Internet notifications
Founding Fuel
June 18, 2021: How Novavax works; Michael Holding on racism in sports and society; Abdul Kalam meets AR Rahman
Founding Fuel
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) can democratize access, amplify an artist’s, especially a woman’s, voice and choice, and promote allyship
Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
March 10, 2021: The limits of what data can tell you; How to make the robot dance; The inevitable future
Founding Fuel
February 20, 2021: FF Daily #304 | Three perspectives on how to maximise your Clubhouse experience
Founding Fuel
February 8, 2021: The story of Old Monk Rum; Covid-19 in the post pandemic world; Prevention is better
Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | January 27, 2021: The media business; Sangeet Paul Choudary on empowering workers; Will Clubhouse click in India
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
January 23, 2021: Useful tips to prevent apps from collecting unnecessary personal data
Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | December 3, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
December 5, 2020: Our consumption of technology has shot up. Is it bad? It depends
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 19, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
Data breaches are inevitable. Here’s what you can do to minimise damage
Achyut Nayak
Software specialist
Interesting fact #1: BigBasket is not alone, there have been a spate of data breaches at other digital entities in recent months. Interesting fact #2: One name, Cyble Inc, comes up every time—they're the ones that have revealed the breach every time. What's going on? And what can those in the digital economy do about it?
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | November 4, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
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
G Venkat Raman
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences | Indian Institute of Management, Indore
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 14, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | October 8, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | September 23, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | September 16, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
This Week in Disruptive Tech | September 9, 2020: A roundup of news and perspectives on how technology is shaping the future, here in India and across the world
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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