Author Archives: Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa

Web 3 is a disruption but it needs to evolve. For a comparison of Web 3 and Metaverse see this recent article in Forbes. Next generation Artificial Intelligence eventually powered by Quantum Computing and the Internet of Things, IoT, would … Continue reading →

Change sometimes, in fact, most of the time, happens ever so slowly that it is difficult to observe it happen. Seasons change, seeds germinate into saplings, flowers bloom, children go through puberty, and as a less formal colloquialism goes, it … Continue reading →

At a time when “sustainability” is becoming a part of acceptable conversation about politics, economics and society, and when dollars are being committed to Environment, Society, and Governance (ESG) by the world’s corporations, it becomes necessary to provide a pragmatic … Continue reading →

President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union is bold in the sense that it raises big questions which require big solutions. Here is my list of the questions having read his speech from April 28, 2021. 1. What should … Continue reading →

NEOM, a word that is a portmanteau combining Greek and Arabic words meaning “a new future”, is one vision of a smart city being built in Saudi Arabia at the behest of the controversial Saudi crown prince Mohammad bin Salman. … Continue reading →

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates lays out a framework for thinking about climate change and a systematic data-driven analysis of the climate crisis in his thoughtful, pragmatic, and must read book How to avoid a climate disaster: The solutions … Continue reading →

When an empire falls it is often succeeded by a dark age, for order across the geopolitical span of the empire collapses, until a new power center emerges. Europe is not unfamiliar to this predicament. It happened on several occasions … Continue reading →

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments … Continue reading →