TIFAC Archives - Prof Prabhat Ranjan's Blog

What I Would Tell the 2047 Committee

Four parts of scorekeeping earn the right to one part of advice. And there is somewhere for it to go: the successor exercise is already running.

The Technology We Filed Under “Future”

A foresight exercise that missed the technology which changed everything, while cataloguing several that changed nothing, has a selection problem rather than an information problem.

We Said Universities Would Be Redundant. We Never Said That About Teachers!

In 2014 we wrote that schools, colleges and universities as currently constituted would be redundant by 2035. Nine years from that deadline, here is what the same chapter said about teachers — and the one recommendation in it that India has ignored.

What Technology Vision 2035 wrote about teachers, and what we have done about it since

Let me begin with a sentence I helped write, which is not a comfortable one to read out on Teachers’ Day.

In 2015, at TIFAC, we prepared Technology Vision 2035 for the country. It set out twelve prerogatives that every Indian should be able to count on by that year, and the sixth of them was quality education, livelihood and creative opportunities. The chapter opens with this: “Schools, colleges and universities as currently constituted will be redundant in 2035.”

There are nine years left on that clock.

Milk, Water, Electrons

Milk, water and electrons look like three different
stories. They are one story told three times: the country builds ahead of schedule, and what the citizen receives lags behind.

The Sector That Stopped Moving

The medical sciences roadmap was the most quantitatively explicit of the twelve. That is to its credit, and it is why the sector can be graded harder than any other.

Halfway to 2035: Marking Our Own Homework

Technology Vision 2035 named twelve prerogatives, ten Grand Challenges and hard figures with a date attached. Ten years and seven months of the twenty are gone.
This is the audit, done in public, against our own numbers.

“Emerging and Disruptive Technologies” – Strategic Challenges : India in 2030

Excerpts from book Chapter “Emerging and Disruptive Technologies” – Authored by Prof Prabhat Ranjan,

Book – “Strategic Challenges : India in 2030” – Edited by Jayadeva Ranade, Published by HarperCollins India in September 2022

Emerging and Disruptive Technologies: Transforming the Landscape of Security and Warfare

Emerging and disruptive technologies are reshaping modern security frameworks and warfare strategies. These innovations, ranging from artificial intelligence (AI) to hypersonic missiles, hold the potential to redefine national defense mechanisms, economic policies, and international diplomacy. This detailed analysis explores the scope, challenges, and implications of these technologies, particularly from an Indian perspective.