Rohit Narnoli - Man of his Own Image!

The futuristic cars portrayed in the fantasy world of animation and Rohit Shetty’s movies years ago, had some thinking that the cars would fly instead of drive one day. Bygone, the evolution of auto industry has married technology with the primary mode of communication. Moreover, even before vehicles rolling off the assembly lines are equipped with technologies such as GPRS , RFID and telematics devices etc., which enable them to remain connected all the time. In fact, the demand is driven by pull from the customers. Including these technologies allows such connected vehicles to interact with devices like mobile phones, other cars, or even infrastructure elements. A recent Industry wise Digital Maturity report published by PwC clearly proclaimed automotive industry as a Digital Champion (20%) followed by the consumer goods industry (6%). However, 46% of the automobile companies are still Digital Novice or Digital Follower. According to McKinsey & Company, cars and the ...

I recently posted a question to the participants in my WhatsApp broadcast , that ‘ if Google knows everything, then why don’t we predict the likely criminal behaviour of a person ’ (Courtesy– Viraj P., SIBM Pune graduate & a good friend of mine ). I had received interesting arguments which I have collated in this article, supplemented with my own research. ‘ A man is innocent until he commits a crime ’. Conspiracy to commit a crime is not a crime unto itself. Moreover, there cannot be a bigger crime than incriminating a person. Even AI make predictions with 95% accuracy. Hence, this would imply that 5% of the accused might face false convictions. In addition, we should not pay heed as to what somebody thinks about an event that ‘might’ occur in the future, says my friend Soumik. The presumption of innocence , sometimes referred to by the Latin expression “ ei incumbit probatio qui dicit, non qui negat” (the burden of proof is on the one who declares, not on one who den...