The first-ever concrete produced dates back to 2650 BC by Imhotep – a great Architect, Chemist and Doctor. He dissolved caustic soda in water and the solution was mixed with locally available flaky limestone and white clay (called Kaolin). This mixture gets hardened after 30 days of exposure to sun heat and attained the compressive … Read more
***** In January 1996, Bill Gates wrote an article titled “Content is King” which was published on the Microsoft website. ***** While we start with his ideas of “content” on mainly internet, we will not limit our discussions to passing information through internet but also in the offline space. Bill Gates opines that “Content is where … Read more
For the past several months the news has been full of reports about Central Bank Digital Currencies. CBDCs as they are called are the flavour of the season especially since the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called on all member nations and central banks to explore the roadmap to issuing CBDCs. This is because the IMF … Read more
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses” – Malcolm X. A free and responsible Media is a significant feature of a democratic country. In our country, it … Read more
The corner office in the corporate world has always been a place to aspire for. The key decision-makers of an organization or C- suite professionals are usually found to occupy those spaces. The corner offices are lavishly designed to complement the corporate status of an individual spearheading most of the important programs in the organization. … Read more
In the fast-paced and dynamic world of today, if something has remained conservative in approach and yet remained in tune with the disruptions happening all around us – it is Finance! According to Investopedia, “Finance is the science that describes the management, creation and study of money, banking, credit, investments, assets and liabilities. Finance consists of financial systems, … Read more
The 21st century marks the year of digitization due to technological improvements and has impacted the lives of the people. The growing population and demand for digitization standards, have led many governments to start investing in smart cities. The Smart city is incomplete without smart waste management in which smart bins are the intelligent waste … Read more
The word folklore originates from two words, ‘Folk’ meaning the general public of a community or society and ‘Lore’ meaning art, belief or custom inherited by knowledge or experience over the time period of several years or centuries. It includes those knowledge or traditions, which are passed on orally from one generation to another and … Read more
Whenever we speak of Brainstorming, the name of Alex Osborne comes to our mind – how he thought of Brainstorming in the 50s and got it popular over the years. One of the main challenges during practical brainstorming is the fact that participants in the team tend to criticise each other’s ideas and thus kill … Read more
Courtesy: www.theguardian.com A Hitech world is a playground of digital natives, digital immigrants, digital heirs, digital orphans, and many more such captivating nomenclatures to distinguish the tech demographics. It drives everything from pilotless aircrafts, driverless cars to IoT’s making your heartbeat for a long time. Hitech has god like powers (if there is a god) or … Read more