It won't take away your jobs. It won't destroy you.
Indian companies seem to be trailing behind. They will have to catch up by reskilling the workforce and ramping up investments.
At the GO-JEK hackathon in Bengaluru, there were over 100 people working on their projects. Most were between the ages of 25 and 30. All except the CoderDragons: Mrinal Jain is 11, and Shreyas Katuri is 12. Nikita Puri meets the pre-teens who are building a virtual voice assistant named Erica.
'It is important that employees are trained to acquire skills that would be needed in future, when the company sees disruption coming -- that is, much before the disruption occurs or the company plans to change the business model,' says Asish K Bhattacharyya.
The PM will pay a two-day visit to Japan from October 28-29 to hold the annual India-Japan summit with Abe. The focus of the visit will be to further expand cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region, carry out joint infrastructure projects in third countries and further boost ties key sectors like defence and trade.
Wipro has a good brand because of the trust and quality it enjoys globally.
The company adopted the scheme from parent Suzuki, where employees are rewarded for making suggestions to improve productivity and cut wastage.
In an online chat, career counsellor Amit Bansal shared crucial career advice with readers on how to pick the right stream and college to study engineering.
'Jobs will exist at very high levels or low levels of skill sets.' 'People, who are in middle level jobs, are the ones who are facing the problem as such jobs are fast disappearing because of technological advancement.'
'In the next 14 years, 100% of US energy will be clean and solar.'
A culture of science and innovation must be embedded in society wherein people not only use new technology but understand it as well. Without this, obscurantism and blind faith can sit side by side with digital technology and, in fact, use the same technology to reinforce their hold on people, says Shram Saran.
In his first Republic Day-eve address to the nation, the President also said that institutions should be "disciplined and morally upright", adding they are always "more important" than the individuals in office. The institutions should also respect their "fraternal relationship" with other institutions, he added.
Both have made factory jobs the centre of their economic agendas. Kanika Datta explains the practical limits to their ambitions.
How soon can India reach a point when there is no hidden underemployment and all who want work can find it at a fair wage and decent work conditions, asks Nitin Desai.
Thirty years after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, coerced collective amnesia envelops the Chinese nation about that horrific event. Claude Arpi glances back at how the student uprising could have changed the Middle Kingdom forever had the Chinese Communist party not traveled on the route of martial law.
'The biggest struggles are in the human mind.'
The Chinese leader will display his grip on the Communist party and chart his plans for his country's future.
In India, where it is tougher to do business, a start-up gets established by the Series-B stage, and it gets expensive for investors.
Perhaps half-way through India's demographic transition, what is the outlook for the future?
No country has achieved a faster, deeper modern transformation than China, says former ambassador Kishan S Rana.
Anant Gupta, HCL Technologies' chief has an amazing success formula to get things done.
India Inc is shying away from investing in digital technologies.
It's crucial for Modi to make India an easier place to do business.
'Adaptability is what is needed right now and students have to continuously learn the new tools to remain relevant in the career they choose.'
'Car makers would be in a better position to adopt norms'.
It is not that platforms and products are something that Infosys has not tried earlier.
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