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Current Topic: Society

Can India Plug Its Brain Drain?
Topic: Society 12:14 pm EST, Mar 28, 2004

For years, it was talked about as India's "Brain Drain." Smart young students would take one of the most competitive entrance examinations in the world, get a bachelor's degree in engineering -- and promptly go West.

Three years ago, IIT Bombay set up an IT incubator. While it is too early to draw conclusions, there are initial indications that the incubator has been successful.

"We have to create opportunities in India and promote people who are young and ambitious."

20 years ago, the US was the place to be for technological entrepreneurs. But now, "this is where the action is. It would be foolish to miss this opportunity by being out of India."

Can India Plug Its Brain Drain?


Battle of the Giants
Topic: Society 12:07 pm EST, Mar 28, 2004

China is touted as the next economic and military superpower, but India may yet overtake it in the new global order.

China's foreign investment inflow is running at $US53 billion a year, as against India's $US5 billion.

India's average growth rate has been about 6 per cent, meaning its 1.1 billion people -- with half China's per capita income -- are falling behind their Chinese counterparts.

Indian visitors to China are almost driven to despair ...

India is plugged into Silicon Valley; China into the Wal-Mart.

"It's the difference between hardware and software."

Battle of the Giants


Wireless in the Park, Just Me and the Clouds
Topic: Society 10:37 am EST, Mar 23, 2004

At the risk of sounding like a Luddite, I have to ask ...

What ever happened to lying on your back in the Sheep Meadow and watching the clouds, or to chatting with a friend in person at Starbucks?

The pace of modern urban life is frantic enough without our feeling obligated to be wired at every moment, in every corner of Manhattan.

I, for one, am happy to have some "dead zones" in my life, where I can find a bit of repose, a moment of peace.

Wireless in the Park, Just Me and the Clouds


Software of Democracy
Topic: Society 11:18 am EST, Mar 21, 2004

"In this globalization of information technology and outsourcing, the beneficiaries will be those who are most flexible and able to organize themselves around the opportunities."

"Globalization is creating the affluent urban Indian who is ... not content with islands of affluence. [Because] it will be impossible for them to fully take advantage of the opportunities globalization is giving them without airports and roads and sidewalks ... And the only way they are going to get that delivered is if they get engaged in government."

If in fact there are two Indias, perhaps John Edwards can find work in one of them.

This November, somebody should hire call center employees in Bangalore for a get-out-the-vote campaign. That would be amusing.

Software of Democracy


Strategic Framework Analysis
Topic: Society 7:23 pm EST, Mar 20, 2004

Strategic frame analysis is an approach to communications research and practice that pays attention to the public's deeply held worldviews and widely held assumptions. Recognizing that there is more than one way to tell a story, strategic frame analysis taps into decades of research on how people think and communicate.

Quite simply, framing refers to the subtle selection of certain aspects of an issue in order to cue a specific response.

This is reminiscent of the business plan for General Memetics Corporation, except that Framework Analysis lacks personalization and social network exploitation. Well, there's that, and the fact that Framework Analysis is meant to be a force for Good. But then, tools are value neutral, right?

Techno is the new Pop.

Strategic Framework Analysis


Living Room Film Club, a Click Away
Topic: Society 9:51 am EST, Mar 19, 2004

Thank you, Netflix.

Netflix not only changed my routine, it also turned me into a different kind of movie watcher. Culturally, I am no longer the same person.

The flat-fee system elicits two responses: more frequent renting, and more adventurous renting.

Rhapsody has a similar effect on subscribers.

Living Room Film Club, a Click Away


The Afflictions of Affluence
Topic: Society 9:17 pm EST, Mar 17, 2004

It may seem a bit unnatural, but more and more of our social problems and complaints stem from our affluence, not our poverty.

Obesity now rivals smoking as the largest cause of premature death.

Getting wealthier spawns other complaints. One is the "time squeeze" -- the sense that we're more harried than ever. Actually, it's not true.

Still, people gripe -- and griping rises with income.

Affluence's afflictions endure and remind us of an eternal truth: It matters, as individuals and as a society, not just how much wealth we have but how well we use it.

The Afflictions of Affluence


Powell Reassures India on Technology Jobs
Topic: Society 9:21 am EST, Mar 17, 2004

Colin Powell, encountering the other side of a tempestuous debate in the US, sought to assure Indians on Tuesday that the Bush administration would not try to halt the outsourcing of high-technology jobs to their country.

White House: "We are concerned when Americans lose jobs, and we are focused on creating jobs for American workers, and the best way to do that is to open markets around the world, including in India."

Kerry camp: the Bush administration has "failed to fight for American workers."

Kerry misperceives this competition as a battle, which is not surprising for a pirate dwarf. To the extent that a conflict does exist, it is of an individual nature; the state cannot proxy for the populace. If the government is looking for a way to help, it should take meaningful steps to support lifelong education rather than fixate on standardized tests for elementary school students.

Powell Reassures India on Technology Jobs


This Progress Is Killing Us, Bite by Bite
Topic: Society 6:30 pm EST, Mar 14, 2004

The epidemic of obesity epitomizes the unsettled character of progress in affluent Western society. Our lives are characterized by too much of a good thing -- too much to eat, to buy, to watch and to do, excess at every turn.

Increasingly, Western life is afflicted by the paradoxes of progress. Material circumstances keep improving, yet our quality of life may be no better as a result -- especially in those cases, like food, where enough becomes too much.

"The maximum is not the optimum," the ecologist Garrett Hardin, who died last year, liked to say. Americans are choosing the maximum, and it does not necessarily make us healthier or happier.

This Progress Is Killing Us, Bite by Bite


Origin of Species
Topic: Society 11:15 am EST, Mar 14, 2004

These are the two basic responses to globalization: Infosys and Al Qaeda.

... a culture that prizes education, science and rationality ... rewards anyone with a good idea ...

In India they're called "call centers." In Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia they're called "madrassas."

In a globalizing world, staying competitive means continuous learning.

Are you getting good ideas? Or just getting angry?

What do you call your school?

Origin of Species


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