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Context is everything.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Utopian projects, history tells us, have usually ended in disaster. Perhaps we are already living through the disastrous effects of Silicon Valley utopianism without realizing it.
Hello from San Francisco, and welcome to the first edition of The Global Pulse—a monthly newsletter that aims to offer a distinct take on matters of global significance. We will go wide across the landscapes of culture, media, politics and technology, and engage with developments that might impact communities across the world, including in India and the Indian diaspora. The Global Pulse will be written from the vantage point of an itinerant who has lived in nine cities across India and the US, travelled to a few more on the map and currently resides in San Francisco.
Beyond San Francisco …
Countries across the world are coming to the consensus that children aged under 15 must not have access to social media. India, which has over 300 million children under 15 and among the cheapest data tariffs, needs to have this conversation sooner rather than later.
The Zoho co-founder’s attempt to build a WhatsApp competitor has captured the imagination of the nationalist Indian. Emotions aside, the most likely outcome is that Zoho’s other products will start selling more.
Indians who are among the world’s largest consumers of free tech products and also significant beneficiaries of free markets suffer from a poor understanding of both technology and accountability. Separately, Aamir Khan breaks a paradigm with a YouTube release.
