Digital Democracy
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/opinion/internet-privacy-project.html Companies and governments are gaining new powers to follow people across the internet and around the world, and even to peer into their genomes. The benefits of such advances have been apparent for years; the costs — in anonymity, even autonomy — are now becoming clearer. The boundaries of privacy are in dispute, and its future is in doubt. Citizens, politicians and business leaders are asking if societies are making the wisest tradeoffs.
in 2018, the special rapporteur to the United Nations’s Human Rights Council issued a 20-page report ( https://freedex.org/a-human-rights-approach-to-platform-content-regulation/ ) noting that social media companies “must embark on radically different approaches to transparency at all stages of their operations, from rule-making to implementation and development of “case law” framing the interpretation of private rules.”
WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025 reveals a net increase of 78 million jobs by 2030 and unprecedented demand for technology and GenAI skills https://blog.coursera.org/wef-future-of-jobs-report-2025/
Half of employers plan to re-orient their business in response to AI
80% plan to upskill workers with AI training and two-thirds plan to hire talent with specific AI skills, while only 40% plan to reduce their workforce as AI automates certain tasks.
85% of employers plan to upskill their workforce in response to growing skills gaps – with half of businesses planning to transition staff into growing roles.
Remember when the line that the current monopolist gave when we got our first personal computers. https://www.britannica.com/technology/computer/The-personal-computer-revolution One quote: The advent of the microprocessor did not inspire IBM or any other large company to begin producing personal computers. Time after time, the big computer companies overlooked the opportunity to bring computing capabilities to a much broader market. In some cases, they turned down explicit proposals by their own engineers to build such machines.
- Each of us were to be a subject getting information from different sources.
- We then got email and subscribed to bulletin boards where we felt a sense of community on different topics. We were to be the centre of information.
- Today, all our information is in data servers, most of the programmes/apps and the algorythms used to process these tell us that unless we are part of this big centralised service, we cannot reap the benefits of IT. After all it is easier to converse with your neighbour, through these centralised servers.. zoom, whatsapp, twitter, instagram.
- Even the so called services committed to privacy, need your data to be in a large server.
https://reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Future_of_Jobs_Report_2025.pdf
https://www.peraindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-Future-of-Jobs-Report-2025.pdf
The attempt is ensure that AI can be only done using centralised data, and corporate control. Open any app, most coders will use corporate modules like OTP, captcha,forms, corp AI. Development of AI using decentralised data, in batch processing mode, would give OUR HUMAN AGENCY, a new lease of life
What TCS Mass Sacking Means For IT Sector? | Where Is India In The AI Race? | Akash Banerjee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEfWNrGXoUU
TCS has let go of 12,000 middle and senior level employees.
Wipro, Infosys, HCL - all are adopting new, cheaper autonomous technologies
in FY 2023, Wipro hired 40,000 freshers. By FY 2025, this figure decreased to only 10,000
Every year, 1.5 million engineering graduates emerge in our country.
Industry insiders are saying that skill mismatch is an excuse and it is a cost cutting exercise
Obviously, the work that will come now will go to AI.a major shift is happening before our eyes
Tools like ServiceNow and Sales Force - all these AI tools, AI bots, AI agents - all of these will do human work
AI is the New King and it wont compromise with anyone Coding, tech support, bug fixing - jobs which we excelled at but all these low level jobs are now done by AI tools Github copilot has reduced entry level coding jobs by 30%
According to Future of Jobs report 2025 of the World Economic Forum states that due to AI 75 million jobs are going to end globally. But more than that new jobs can be created.
But new skills are needed for new jobs like AI, machine learning, data science, cloud computing
In India there is still 70% engineering students who study C++ and Java.
