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Technology Review: February 2010

Value for Money and for Many
India has demonstrated that impossible challenges can be successfully converted into possible solutions.
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Incremental Innovation
India’s innovation train is chugging along without gathering too much speed due to self-inflicted wounds.

Notebooks

Nanotech for Societal Bottom
India cannot afford to miss the nanotech bus. The country is ripe both in the need and in the desire to implement nanotechnology.
Think Beyond Subsidies
Purely providing capital subsidies distorts various sustainable models.
Why Geoengineering?
M. Granger Morgan explains why we must study the consequences of shading the earth.

Features

Innovations for the Common Man
Indian corporates are fast producing goods which are affordable for the common man.
The Geoengineering Gambit
For years, radical thinkers have proposed risky technologies that they say could rapidly cool the earth and offset global warming. Now a growing number of mainstream climate scientists say we may have to consider extreme action despite the dangers.

Q&A

Tapping the Sun
We should create policies that are conducive for creating sustainable ventures that could provide decentralized solutions to the poor, says Harish Hande.

Reviews

The Accidental Revolution
India’s $73 billion information technology industry emerged out of nowhere to the powerhouse it is today within four decades thanks to a series of unrelated happenings in the country and abroad.

Briefing

Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology has great relevance to India today as it has the potential to address the needs of those at the bottom of the economic pyramid through innovative technology solutions.

Photo Essay

Supersonic Tejas
Achieving speed of Mach 1.6, equivalent of 1,699 kilometers per hour, light combat aircraft (LCA) Tejas is India’s first indigenous supersonic, light weight fighter aircraft. There has been no looking back ever since the LCA took its maiden test flight on January 4, 2001.

Demo

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
A wireless robotic sea-vehicle that can map the seafloor.

Last Page

Managing Water Pumps on Phone
A Mumbai-based company has developed a device that enables farmers to switch water pumps on or off over a phone call.
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