Gandhi’s ideas in the information age, and tell people that connectivity, how Gandhi is more relevant today than ever before in the history of mankind.
I lost track earlier while I was telling you about the second book. I’m writing a book about redesigning the world. The world that we have designed today is completely obsolete. The last design was by US after World War II. UN, World Bank, NATO, IMF, GDP, GNP, per capita income, balance of payment, democracy, human rights, capitalism, consumption, and wars.
All of these things don’t make sense anymore. GDP don’t mean a damn thing. But we still follow it. All of the measurements today can benefit from big data, cloud computing, analytics. Then it was not possible, so you said gross domestic product and everybody agreed. Today you can go and zero in on so many little details because you have huge data to analyze.
I’m so happy that someone here is taking all the data from the court, putting it on web. I fought for seven years with all of our chief justices. Every new chief justice appointed, I will call him next day, go to his house. We have tea and try to convince him that why does it take 15 years to get justice? Why can’t we computerize all your reports and get justice in three years? And he would say, “Yes, Sam, we agree with you, Mr. Pitroda, we are all with you, terrific idea, let’s do it.” And then nothing will happen.
And in eight months, there will be new chief justice. So I go to him again. And he will say, “You are so very right, we are going to do it this time.” With all good intentions. They mean well. But they can’t do it.
Why does it take 15 years to settle a court case in India? With all the expertise you have, it can be done in a year, maybe two, maybe three. So you need to use IT everywhere to transform. You are here to transform the very fabric of this society. From homes to work to police to court to government to education to health services, agriculture, and your tools are basically information, information, information. To information, add knowledge, wisdom, action, and courageous young people to go do something.
In India you can write off anybody who is above probably 45, including me. They are just not equipped to handle this world. Everyone in India talks about the past. Nobody talks about future. It’s all about Ram’s history. Immediately somebody will talk about Hanuman, someone will talk about another god, all will say this was our heritage.
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