In the run-up to the 2008 general elections, two such ‘prophets’ predicted the BJP-led NDA to assume power with a thumping majority. The UPA proved them wrong, en route to getting mired in a slew of scandals, including 2G and 3G. Now, there is no more G left for them to get tainted with.
Well, prediction is not everyone’s game. It is harder than a diamond. Did anybody ever predict that an Indian would design a $35 tablet? If that has become a reality, anything can happen here. That’s the power of information technology.
Here, we bring you 12 events that are highly unlikely to happen in India in 2012. As you know, it makes for an easier task than pondering over the likely ones in vain.
E-life app a reality
These days, there is an app for anything and everything. If there is one to check heartbeats, there is also Siri, a personal assistant application from iOS.
How about an app to assure infinite life or elixir of life? Now, that seems cakewalk for a tech wizard from one of India’s premier institutes – like IITs and IIM-A,B or C.
Alas, what if India goes on to topple China to become the most populous country? We bet – and pray – that no desi genius would come up with an e-life app.
Zuckerberg files pauper suit
Steve Jobs once got sacked from his own firm, but was back with a bang to rule the tech world. How exactly his Indian visit as a teenager helped him in reversing the ‘mis’fortune is not clear.
So, the idea of an Indian geek coming up with a social networking site that might spell doom to Facebook can’t be totally discounted. We all know what happened to Orkut.
In such an extreme situation, Mark Zuckerberg will have to come up with something innovative to stay afloat. Say, like filing a pauper suit in a New York Court.
Sibal gets ‘social’
Communications IT minister Kapil Sibal, also known for his ‘anti-social’ crusader status, might sober down over the coming year in safeguarding the cultural ethos of the country.
Since he has other lofty ambitions in raising the bar of higher education and seeing through BJP’s ‘evil’ intentions to block the Lokpal Bill, let us safely assume that he would let go of his stern stance to rein in social networking sites.
Cautious optimism… what?
Indian IT companies, at least, most of them are set to shed their conservative image – be it in projecting their future growth or disclosing their big deals.
To begin with, Infosys Ltd., will drop its meticulously cultivated ‘cautious optimistic’ image. Too ludicrous to become true?
Just wait till chief executive officer S.D. Shibulal makes an announcement to this effect. “Despite the prevailing environment, we would like to throw caution to the wind. Economic instability, Euro debt crisis, U.S. double dip? We are least bothered in our march ahead.”
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