Technology and you

Snapshots from Mint-MIT Tech Review's EmTech Ind ia conference on emerging technologies.

We have to find out formulas and customise technology accord ing to the Ind ian requirement. Unless technology has social impact embed d ed into it, it is futile. KT Rama Rao,

minister, IT, industries, mining, NRI affairs & urban development, Telangana The scientific and technology community need s to find ways to ed ucate the public on the benefits of artificial intelligence: most of the talk out there is way too negative. John MacIntyre,

pro vice chancellor, product and partner development, University of Sunderland, UK Intersection of biology, computing and materials will matter a lot in the foreseeable future. Gopichand Katragadda, Group chief technology officer, Tata Sons We believe connectivity is a human right and every human on the planet must be connected . Technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality will have a transformative impact. Umang Bedi, MD , India and South Asia, Facebook Over the last 6-8 months, Ind ia has grown from being a nation that was constrained on broad band to a nation that is fast becoming the fastest nation when it comes to the internet speed s in the world ...Tod ay Ind ia has more mobile d ata traffic than whole of the US Rajan Anandan, VP, India & South East Asia, Google Are we doing those things in technology that really impact people's lives? We need to think a lot about that. Anant Maheshwari, president, Microsoft India The moment technology and scale come together, afford ability happens. Manoj Kohli, executive chairman, SoftBank Energy Marc Schuuring, Technology is the third -largest economy in the world and Ind ia is one of the few countries where Internet is on a really fast-growth curve.

partner and MD , The Boston Consulting Group, Amsterdam, the Netherlands