DailyPost 720 ENGINEERING EDUCATION CONUNDRUM Engineers engineer our world. They dictate technology to work in our favour. It is the cherished dream of a youngster to become an engineer. From a bicycle to a dam to Artificial Intelligence is their creation, modern world itself is. The fate of the country is intricately tied to quality
DailyPost 719 GLOBAL PROBLEMS “Global problems need global answers,” says Yuval Noah Harari in his recent book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. This thought is not path breaking but finds immense relevance in a world moving towards nationalism only menu. The fact is over a period of time the whole of mankind has become
DailyPost 718 FREE COPY ENDS! Govts. felt no need to control the internet / social media or were ignorant about the proportions it would take, undermining every single institution built up after centuries of hard work & toil. This is not a comment on the humungous benefits that freely fell in our laps, across the
DailyPost 717 ASSOCIATIVE THINKING In the world of breakthroughs, associative thinking takes the cake. Creativity is all about connecting things & that is the reason why most creative guys will tell you that they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. This uncanny mental view is at the core of breakthrough thinking, which leads
DailyPost 717 PUBLIC DOMAIN / LIFE IMBROGLIO The quality, quantity & contribution of professionals in the public domain decided tacitly but very convincingly the direction the nation takes. Public life unfortunately has not dedicated professionals as in the case of every domain but at the end of day, public discourse is heavily impacted by them.
DailyPost 715 DIGITAL READINESS OF THE INDIAN POLICE With the nature of Cyber Crime cases as the Cosmos variety close on the heels of WannaCry and Petya attacks, leading the temporary closure of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Mumbai, things are discomforting. The Cyber Security scenario gets more complicated by the day with no predictability.
DailyPost 714 CONTRACTED KNOWLEDGE If the clear cut connect between between contracted knowledge & a job were to get snapped, God knows what percentage of Indians would still have faith in knowledge. Contracted knowledge as in the case of any contracted goods or service has a limited shelf life & the quality does not go
DailyPost 713 KNOWLEDGE PRODUCT Ask some persons what a knowledge product means; who would rarely get an answer. If you ask for a definition, you will not get any, as there is none. In a world where terrorism is devoid of definition and lots of other centre stage activities of the day too, it would
DailyPost 712 AMERICA TRUMPED! There is no proverbial last straw on the camel’s back, the back is full of last straws, only time will decide it’s future is the thought Americans have live with in Trump’s Presidency. For all that the world has heard and seen of his Presidency, mostly is amazement, bewilderment & disbelief,
DailyPost 711 UNREGULATED RESPONSIBLE ACCOUNTABILITY Might be this term, jargon or phrase comes into vogue today, yet we would have felt, understood, experienced or practiced it in some form or the other. Devoid of any regulation, an industry or a professional community, professionally and commercially conducts itself in the best interest of of the society
DailyPost 710 THE FUTURE OF RESEARCH In a transformative era, if the status quoist’s of present system of research feel that they would come unscathed, then they are in for a surprise. Research for research sake has been the mantra for long, it should change sooner than later. It survives in its own ecosystem, might
