Harini Calamur's Writings
The Internet Trap – How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy is a deep dive in to the digital universe, and looks at the power exerted by trans national monopolies such as Facebook, Amazon and Google, in developing large pools…
This appeared on the CNBC Tv18 website One of the more familiar tropes in Hollywood is that of the intelligent machine, that sees human kind as a threat to its survival and annihilates people. In the film 2001 Space Odyssey, the AI…
I write on what next for #Metoo – for CNBC-TV18 It has been almost 3 weeks since the #MeToo uprising took off in India. And, the impact has been staggering. A minister in the Union cabinet has resigned. Production houses have lost…
Ravi Aggarwal’s book, India connected is a breezy walk down the street of rapid smartphone penetration in India, and a look at it’s impact on social progress, economic development, individual habits, and government. There approximately 330 million smartphones in India, it is…
Chris Paine’s documentary film “Do you Trust this Computer” is a look in to the world of unregulated cross border digital giants, the quest for Artificial Intelligence, and what could happen if Artificial Intelligence decides that humanity is going to stand in…
Earlier this month, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) came out with a report that looked at the implications of a 1.5 degrees Celcius rise in average temperature across the world. The prognosis is dire. The findings say that unless the…