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Today, intersecting technologies, AI, Blockchain, cloud computing, the Internet of Everything, software-defined networks, and molecular biology are reshaping our world. My friends know me as an Economist Nut--sees everything from just one lens. It is easy to see the path to prosperity with this lens. Its opposite--the political way--is one hell of a bizarre and comical way to self-destruct. The wo

rld actually looks one big theater from my lens. Except in rare moments of sanity. I have been a futurist and an innovation buff all my life. Hence my personal brand slogan--the hedgehog who senses the future. Started with spotting the emerging trend of globalization in the early 1980s when nationalism was still pervasive. I was an industrial economist for a decade focused on technology's role in economic development. Thereafter, I became a business journalist in the 1990s, An early proponent of free market economics in India, I championed deregulation of telecommunications, ten years before it became conventional wisdom,

VSNL's privatization was eventually implemented exactly as I had proposed it. As I had predicted, the restructuring of Indian telecom paved the way for the relocation of services industries from the West to India. Public policy can be tiresome--well-tried and effective economic ideas are ignored till strong leaders are at the helm of affairs. I moved to the USA for a different life. A decade later, the wheel of history turned as dysfunctional third-world politics arrived in America!! On the positive side, the USA may well be at an inflection point--the transformation of its gigantic health sector seems imminent. The archaic health delivery systems domestically, and worldwide, are unable to make the best of medical devices and biotech drugs. I started a group, "Support Market-based healthcare" on Facebook to expound on the policy issues of the next-generation health systems. My latest metamorphosis is entrepreneurship--as a partner in a wearable and Internet of Things startup eyeCam LLC. It is not all about economics, stupid! This startup is planned to be a forerunner to an innovation factory that turns technologies into innovative products. Born in the "Indian Jewish" community of Sindhis in India, I grew up in a small, one-factory town of Sindri in South Bihar. I was fortunate to be educated by an eccentric group of American Jesuits at De Nobili School. Now I am lucky to be living in the city of San Francisco just as it is transforming itself to be the tech capital of the world

The age of drone warfare has arrived. The expensive heavy military equipment widely used up until the beginning of the U...
01/20/2025

The age of drone warfare has arrived. The expensive heavy military equipment widely used up until the beginning of the Ukraine/Russia war is getting battered by drones. New tactics for warfare have emerged with drone swarms that can be controlled remotely, and flocks of them adapt dynamically in a Guerrilla warfare warfare mode.

Industrial-scale Internet of Things (IoT) captures vast volumes of data from machines, people, sensors, and devices. The aggregated data, processed by AI algorithms, lays the groundwork for timely responses to events, operational efficiencies, business agility, and transformative business models.

Drone swarms are going mainstream. Heavy equipment of the traditional military have become easy targets for agile, often...
01/20/2025

Drone swarms are going mainstream. Heavy equipment of the traditional military have become easy targets for agile, often non-state, adversaries using drones. Targeted warfare has become the norm. The theaters of war generated reams of data. IoT aggregates the data. AI analyzes the need to pinpoint threats and the need for reinforcements to deter threats. Battle tactics are controlled remotely by humans perched in conventional equipment. It is much like Star Wars in real life.

Industrial-scale Internet of Things (IoT) captures vast volumes of data from machines, people, sensors, and devices. The aggregated data, processed by AI algorithms, lays the groundwork for timely responses to events, operational efficiencies, business agility, and transformative business models.

01/19/2025

The humdrum business of supply chains is getting a fundamental technology makeover. Covid-19 broke the old model. Supply chains repeatedly broke as they became unmanageable with recurring schedule changes, delivery delays caused by lockdowns, and workers' absences. Post-Covid supply chains have become complex labyrinths with multiple sources of supply at the local, regional, and global levels. Geo-political conflicts and several theaters of war have made them unmanageable. An array of technologies--the Internet of Things, Digital Twins, AI, and networking with low-orbit satellites and mesh networks are helping to solve problems of visibility, rapid decision-making, and agility to solve the chronic state of disruptions. Supply chain managers gather real-time data end-to-end to gain visibility. They visualize and simulate data on digital twins to evaluate decision options, collaborate with vendors and partners in any corner of the supply chain with low-orbit satellites, and direct data flows with ad hoc networks to databases.

4PL supply chain companies have added a management layer to 3PL logistics companies to provide services that help to achieve predictable ETAs.

We have produced a video to tell the story of how the recent evolution of supply chains.

Please let us know your impressions.

Quantum is poised to have a far-reaching impact on information technologies across-the-board. Quantum has gone largely ...
11/13/2024

Quantum is poised to have a far-reaching impact on information technologies across-the-board. Quantum has gone largely unnoticed by Technorati because its incipient commercialization has, so far, impacted very few use cases. Cyber-security is one, and the healthcare sector is another. Quantum computing will complement classical computing with capabilities to solve complex problems, as we will discuss in another posting. Quantum sensing brings atomic-level detail to healthcare imaging, especially brain imaging, potentially facilitating early detection. Quantum networking is the third element that awaits scalable and error-free solutions.

We interviewed Nardo Manaloto, Managing Partner at Qubit’s Ventures, to learn about the progress in the commercialization of quantum science for the healthcare sector.

https://medium.com//mastering-complexity-consummating-the-marriage-of-quantum-technologies-and-healthcare-78ccae08b858

An interview of future-maker Nardo Manaloto by Kishore Jethanandani

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