DailyPost 148 CREATIVE MONOPOLIES Monopolies, by conventional wisdom, economic thought and practice, in a state regulated atmosphere, state run public enterprises provide goods and services in the interest of subservient public good, as the underpinning to the welfare state. Even private companies got into the same rigmarole in a regulated and protectionist regime. We are […]
DailyPost 147 CREATIVE MONOPOLY Capitalism and the supposedly inbuilt competition have been touted as the economic panacea to the world; of fairness, transparency and equal opportunity. This also provided a handle to tackle the other prevalent economic & political thought of the world socialism. Capitalism triumphed and competition became its default mode. Times have changed
DailyPost 146 IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN Public domain is generally thought to be synonymous to public life and the variants we are comfortable with is political life, social and civil activism, religious and spiritual gurus; who hog the maximum public space and thus rule over the hearts and minds of people. The electronic and
DailyPost 145 BUSINESS CASE STUDIES When textbooks started failing to deliver the content & its consequent assimilation, business case studies emerged into the teaching pedagogy as a tool to fill up the well known gap & add effective assimilation to learning. Did it really make the proposed difference? It became another textbook material. The cases
DailyPost 144 TIME TO CELEBRATE TECHNOLOGY In the cacophony of the TRP, Chennai, UP et al gain pre-eminence not only precedence over one of the most watershed moments in the history of research & development in this country the launch of PSLV – C 37. Social media is not far behind its electronic visual cousin
DailyPost 143 DIGITAL IRON DOME TECHNOLOGY Wish cyber attacks going unabated and breaking into systems which had been treated as impregnable, Israel is in the process of creating a digital equivalent of the Iron Dome to protect government, public & private enterprises from the ever increasing intensity of hacking. It draws its inspiration from a
DailyPost 142 DEEP LEARNING TECHNOLOGY When human beings are getting mesmerised by shallow learning; deep learning technology is making major strides with a potential of changing our lives completely in the days to come. Siri, DeepMind / AlphaGo et al are already giving us the feel of the world to come. At the core of
DailyPost 141 AN URGE TO CREATE TECHNOLOGY In the cacophony of the multimedia world, though often repeated, but still to affect our psyche even in a small way, an urge to create is conspicuously missing. From IBM to Amul are all creations. To create is to elevate ourselves to next higher level of existence. The
DailyPost 140 MOTIVATED WE ARE! Happy employees are better employees. Better the perks and see the changes. More humane work atmosphere can do wonders. Empathy is at the heart of everything. Motivation still happens to the biggest enigma of our times. It’s certainly not like filling the cycle tyre and it’s ready to go. Motivation
DailyPost 139 3D PRINTING TECHNOLOGY The 3D Printing happens to be the biggest technological leap since the inception of printing by Gutenberg, some 600 years bring, transforming the world with ideas and giving the world view shattering movements of Reformation & Enlightenment and the life. Mass communication got born and over time and space got
DailyPost 138 THE CORPORATIZATION OF LAW Till around a few decades back, India could barely boast of a few good law schools, this lacunae was squarely to be blamed for the quality of the legal process, was the notion which was taking shape. Times have changed beyond recognition, brand new qualitatively superior law schools have
