61 - Tue, 25 May 2010

HI Ram,

I thinking you are living way too far into the future. We are talking about India here, not America or Australia. No matter how well a program is designed and defined, remember it still will be controlled by the Indian babus, who will ensure that most systems are below standard when purchased and work less than 50% of the time at best.

While theoretically Matrix type situation is possible, our system of babus and netas will not allow itself to be replaced by an online parallel system in which they could be the data points as well. Specifically more so with netas, who are temporary, least knowledgeable or skilled and last but not the least, paranoid about their very next neighbor.

So have no fear. Have another cold one and relax. This will not happen in our life time.

Suresh.A IIT Kgp