Jaspreet Bindra is the Founder & MD of a firm called Tech Whisperer. In this piece for ET, he says that AI enabled agents are already doing some of the online purchasing that humans used to do. For example, AI is apparently buying books online on behalf of other people. Mr Bindra says that such […]
Over the past few months, we featured a couple of pieces on the decline of reading as a habit and its implications based on data from new research. Here’s a more detailed take on the implications for a post literate society – on intelligence, creativity or even democracy. The author begins with this remarkable quote […]
Last week’s announcements of investments in OpenAI by Nvidia and AMD in exchange for buying their chips seemed to bring a sense of Déjà vu. Here’s Harris Kupperman back with his rational approach to showing the impossible economics of the AI boom. This is a follow up to his viral post from about a month ago titled […]
Yogendra Yadav is a psephologist turned politician. In this piece, we dwell not on his politics but on his elegant review of a very good book by Partha Chatterjee (no, not the TMC politician but the political scientist and anthropologist who now teaches at Columbia University). For those who don’t know who Partha Chatterjee is, […]
marcellus.in From Our CIO’s Desk White Collar Jobs Growth & Wage Growth: Twin Drivers of India’s Slowdown From Diwali 2023 onwards, Indian companies’ earnings growth has decelerated at a rapid rate. Underpinning this deceleration is a sharp conk-off in consumption growth, long the mainstay of the Indian economy. Key drivers of this consumption downturn […]
By now, most of us are comfortable using AI to generate our slide decks. Be that as it may, it might still be worth paying heed to this article about the challenges in communication. “We’ve all sat in those presentations. A speaker with a stream of slides full of text, monotonously reading them off as […]
Even as Donald Trump’s tariffs & tweets become a daily feature of our lives, the world in general and Asia in particular continues to evolve. In particular, Trump’s tariffs are leading to a realignment of trade flows within Asia. For India the speed with which these trade flows are moving is an object lesson in […]
Even though the Government of India’s capital expenditure on defence has grown at twice the rate of overall Government spending over the past five years, in some areas, India’s preparedness still appears to be inadequate. As Snehesh Alex Philip describes in this article, with the MiG-21, India’s first supersonic fighter, now retired after 62 years […]
In 2018, Annie Duke, a professional poker player, published her bestselling book “Thinking in Bets”, as a guide to decision making amidst uncertainty from her experiences of playing poker. She and her book became popular among investors and business-people alike, both of whom face the task of making decisions amidst inherent uncertainty about the future. She went […]
Steven Levy, an American journalist has covered Silicon Valley and the tech industry for almost half a century, in the process authoring books on its icons ranging from Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg. So, he has been around long enough to notice the transformation, politically speaking – how a generally left leaning community, at least […]
This is an entertaining and insightful long read about the business of movie making and how Netflix is profoundly changing the way movies are made. In order to help us understand why Netflix is a big deal, Phil Hoad of The Guardian, gives us a bit of context: “Among the streaming companies, Netflix is by […]
The world lost some legends these past few days – the iconic Hollywood actor and filmmaker Robert Redford, the legendary Kannada novelist SL Bhyrappa and the Assamese music icon, Zubeen Garg. But the obituary we choose to feature was a one-of-a-kind superstar, a cricket umpire – Dickie Bird. We thought it is apt, given the […]
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