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How will science and technology change our lives in the future and what should India do to stay ahead in the game?

(Award winning essay in the Tata Building India School Essay Competition 2011-12)

The world is passing through an era of technolgical bloom since the beginning of the century.

We are accustomed to watch colour television with options of more than hundred channels since we were born. Parents say that in their childhood they had only transistors and black and white television with only one channel. A house without a computer, we simply can't think of. But its so extensive existence is only over a decade. Our parents talk about writing letters, posting it at a post office, and then waiting for weeks, at time for months for a reply to come manually through the snail-mail. We do it in moments through punching some keys in our computer or in our mobile phone. Internet is a boon to the world; we are exposed to science from our early childhood. We can't even imagine a World without world-wide-web!

Scientists in every sphere are now engaged in proper incorporation of technological inputs to augment he available service in the field. Newer and improved generations of satellites are taking their orbits around the earth. These will help to improve the weather forecasting early and more accurately. Planned and proper disaster management following a natural calamity would be possible even if the calamity can not be averted. Bio-fuel stock of the earth is rapidly exhausting. Soon many types of machinery including automobiles will run with renewable energy source like air and water. Robots will gradually take over those jobs requiring precision and such jobs may get hampered by fatigue. Many researchers are engaged in the field of medical genetics, robotics and genetic engineering. More and more genetic diseases will be detected early, modified and congenital anomalies will be prevented in near future Soon in-vitro blood and organ production will save many lives suffering from deadly non-functional or poorly-functional organs. Anti-retro viral drug research will be successful. AIDS will be a curable disease then. Cancer research has taken a good pace.With newer ti-cancer drugs some of the cancers will be successfully treatable soon. Quality and expectancy of life will thus be increased further.

India is always known throughout the world for its brain. Rich international companies are hiring Indian brains from premier medical, engineering and management institutions. Utilizing the merit of these brains, these Companies are inventing newer scientific tools or products. India being a very large and hugely populated country, it is consuming the major share of these end products. International companies are earning the profit.

Government and Indian companies will have to create a proper environment so that talented students of India from various premier institutes stay back within the country. Investment in research and developement sector have to be increased. If the brains behind the upcoming inventions in various fields could be kept within the country and properly nurtured, India as a nation will be sitting in the driver's seat in this century.
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