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 input...