Technology Review: February 2010
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Value for Money and for Many
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India has demonstrated that impossible challenges can be successfully converted into possible solutions.
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From the Editor
- 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.
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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.
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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.
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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