Overcoming India's technological cowardice
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How can we learn to invent tomorrow?
In 2025, nearly 78 years after we gained our independence in 1947, India remains a poor country because our elites are cowards. In private industry, academia, and government, the people with the money and power in our great nation are too afraid to take technical risks – they refuse to invest deeply and patiently in research & development in fields like biotechnology, chemistry, materials science, electronics, semiconductors, and even, despite our vaunted software industry, computer science, to allow us to originate first-in-the-world and best-in-the-world products of the kind that would…
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