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The fever dream of ‘technological sovereignty’
I recently came across an initiative called “Industrial47”. Someone had shared a link to it on a group I’m part of, and when its card loaded, the image was of a nuclear weapon going off. I found on LinkedIn that … Continue reading
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Tagged air pollution, farm fires, Indian Space Research Organisation, industrial revolution, Industrial47, LinkedIn, Rahul Seth, sewer cleaning, Shankar Nair, smokeless chulha, social harm, Social welfare, solar cooker, The Hindu, Three Gorges dam, Yarlung Tsangpo dam
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The fever dream of ‘technological sovereignty’
I recently came across an initiative called “Industrial47”. Someone had shared a link to it on a group I’m part of, and when its card loaded, the image was of a nuclear weapon going off. I found on LinkedIn that … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Op-eds, Science
Tagged air pollution, air purifier, Brahmaputra river, farm fires, genius, Gita Chadha, Homi Bhabha, Indian Space Research Organisation, Industrial47, investment fund, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leona Woods, LinkedIn, nuclear weapon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reason of state, scientific superpower, scope creep, smokeless chulha, social harm, Social welfare, solar cooker, technological sovereignty, technologisation, The Hindu, Three Gorges dam, Walchand Hirachand, Yarlung Tsangpo river
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The shadows of Chandrayaan 2
When in September 2019 the surface component of the Chandrayaan 2 mission failed, with the ‘Vikram’ lander crashing on the moon’s surface instead of gently touching down, there was a sense in all public spaces and conversations that the nation … Continue reading
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Tagged Arun Mohan Sukumar, Chandrayaan 2, Chandrayaan 3, Indian Space Research Organisation, Jahnavi Phalkey, K Sivan, Narendra Modi, National Physical Laboratory, S Somanath, solar cooker, Vikram lander
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A great discussion on the history of India’s tech.
On February 27, the Bangalore International Centre and Carnegie India hosted a panel discussion around Midnight Machines, the new book by Arun Mohan Sukumar that traces the interplay of technology and politics in independent India (read The Wire Science‘s review … Continue reading
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Tagged appropriate technology, Arun Mohan Sukumar, brain drain, CSIR, Emergency, Five Year Plan, history of science, history of technology, Human Genome Project, Indian Institutes of Technology, ISRO, Jahnavi Phalkey, Jawaharlal Nehru, Midnights Machines, Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Morarji Desai, Nandan Nilekani, Planning Commission, solar cooker, UIDAI, Vikram Sarabhai
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