3 Techies Banter #3TB

India is home to 105 unicorns with a total valuation of $ 338.50 B; 19 of these were added to date in 2022. In contrast, France created one unicorn in the last 2 years. Despite this euphoria, we do not fully understand or appreciate the far-reaching impact of the tech industry on India's development march. Apart from being a $200B industry ($178B exports), tech changed the fabric of the nation: Di...

Pascal Bornet talks to us about Intelligent Automation (IA) and the Promise Of A Better Life In 2018 alone, over $5 trillion (6% of global GDP) was lost due to fraud. The economic value of medical errors in the US is almost $1 trillion; 86% of those are administrative. A 2017 Medliminal Healthcare Solutions study found that 80% of US medical billings contain at least minor errors — creating unnece...

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork says an old English proverb. COVID has made all of us very aware of our overall health and wellness needs. By 2025, India will need an additional 1.5M doctors and 2.2M nurses. Life expectancy at that time will be 70 years with about 90M diabetics. Unless we shift to a new way of looking at managing healthcare, we will be in a constant state of catc...

With this episode, we kick off a new theme - Everyday Tech and home automation is a natural choice for a first episode. The earliest reference to a smart home we found was a short story by Ray Bradbury in 1950 called “There Will Come Soft Rains”. It was about a smart house going about its daily routine in the year 2026. It wakes the family, cooks a perfect breakfast, cleans the tables, and so on....

Yes - this is a long episode.  But so is every story worth listening to.  Imagine Frodo reaching Mordor in 30 min OR Bran Stark ascending the Iron Throne in an hour OR Thanos dying in a single movie Could the Wachowskis have made Matrix as a 30 min video or Francis Ford Coppola made Godfather as a short film? These are rhetorical questions really!  Some data snapshots of UPI UPI transactions are e...

Kicking off our "Been There, Done That" Series with the Chief Architect of the India Stack, Pramod Varma. In this multi-part tête-à-tête with him, we naturally begin with what started it all - Aadhaar. Rather than get into complex descriptions, we thought we will just leave you with some facts: Trust - 90% of people trust that their data are safe in the Aadhaar system and 61% of welfare beneficiar...

Roti, Kapda aur Makaan, The Three Musketeers, the 3 Little Pigs and 3 Idiots are just a few of the many good things that come in threes. And this phenomenon has been used to express some of history's most powerful ideas as well. “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” (“I came, I saw, I conquered”) Julius Caesar. “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.“ (“Liberty. Equality. Fraternity.”) The national motto of France. “Citius,...

Nothing like a spot of nostalgic DDLJ to get you all warm and fuzzy. And if you ever think nobody cares whether you're alive, try missing a couple of payments.  India has made the world of digital payments look like “choti baatein” (translates to "no big deal really") but did you know that in FY 2021 alone, we recorded 44 BN digital payments worth Rs. 5554 crores. Ab yeh mat puchna crore mein kitn...

That got your attention, didn’t it 😀. Staying on the movie theme, do you know what The Big Lebowski, North by North West, Three Amigos, The Great Dictator, and The Talented Mr. Ripley have in common. You are right. They are all about mistaken identity. Unlike when we are mistaken for someone else in our day-to-day lives which is kind of a mundane occurrence; in movies, this could have far-reachin...

Ridiculam Quaestiones - that is us casting a super Harry Potter spell that will hold you spellbound as we reveal some mind-twisting possibilities. But honestly - it only means funny questions in Latin. And adequately captures what we like to do - tickle your intellect, make you research areas of interest and get you to think more expansively. Always forcing you to look at tech topics through the l...

Since Top Gun is the flavour of the month and is also the flavour of sequels, we will shamelessly reuse an analogy from there. Commander Mike Metcalf - call sign "Viper." says this to the class - "Gentlemen, you are the top 1% of all naval aviators - the elite, the BEST of the best. We'll make you better." And he goes on to add "Gentlemen - this school is about combat. There are no points for seco...

People who inhabit the tech world do odd things. Take everyone's favourite tech company Apple for example. Did you know that when you agree to the T&Cs for iTunes, you agree not to use it to make nuclear or chemical weapons? Or the rumoured conditions where the warranty of your Apple computer is voided if you are a smoker? Am sure there is a technicality hidden here somewhere :-). If this was not...

Mark Twain humorously (we hope) said, "If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it." While that does sound terribly discouraging, we can only counteract that with George Jean Nathan, who said, "Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote". Elections are important and what is important always seems to involve Technology. In this episode, we talk with Anirudh Si...

This song, composed and recorded by Normal Span (King Radio) 1936, is aptly the title of our Women's Day Special episode. Many a crooner has rendered this song in their voice -  from Joan Baez to Harry Belafonte to the Carpenters, Robert Palmer and even the Grateful Dead. In this podcast, the women outnumbered the men. Did we need to prove a point? Not at all. We just did it because we could. And...

Press F to Pay Respects - have you seen your kids, younger colleagues or anyone in your sphere of influence using this. Kids today use it in various ways, including in times of grief, such as during the recent Jacksonville shooting tribute stream.  But do you know where it originated? Permit us to enlighten you. It goes back to 2014 when Activision released Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. In the g...

Do you understand what "no cap', "sus", "bop", or "slaps" mean? If you are making a mad scramble for Google right now, the chances are that you are not in the same lingo generation as the kids of today. Rest easy. That goes for most people over 25 (you read that right). So we thought it would be fun to get some of the kids that understand the terminology on our podcast and talk about what tech mea...

Greenwashing (do look that up) might sound like a bad thing - but to us, it is a big thumbs up for ESG. And so does lack of transparency and sloppy metrics. What it actually means is  Investors wouldn’t care about metrics or transparency unless they were using it to invest - a good thing. Someone is asking for ESG, so others are greenwashing - again, a good thing. Clearly, some groups of individua...

Before we fix Ethics in AI, we should solve for natural stupidity in humans. Guess it cannot be done! :-). And that is precisely why AI cannot be "Ethical". Ethics is really in the "it depends" realm.  However, what it can be is responsible. And the guidelines for that responsible behaviour need to come from our collective "wisdom".  With that in mind, the episode also carries opinions from stalwa...

Why have machines not replaced humans yet? Is AI as we know it today AI, or is it only Super Excel - but that would make it a detergent :-). Is AI just that incredible piece of marketing, or will it be the cure to world hunger? In this episode, we explore AI and tell you why every Hollywood story on bots replacing us and our consciousness is many moons away. Please Record Your Question / Feedback...

Scientifically speaking, speed, acceleration, velocity, and momentum are entirely different concepts. In this episode, we look at trending technologies through all these lenses. If that gets you to look up these definitions, we will take it as a win for the episode :-) Please Record Your Question / Feedback Here. Or email us at 3TB@unblox.com. We look forward to hearing from you.   Learn more abou...

More than 35% of consumers say a fintech firm is their most trusted financial services brand – with those numbers even higher among Gen Z and millennials. We look at what is driving this frenzy where 1 in every 5 VC dollars is going to fintech which boasts of 157 unicorns. Is it financial innovation? Or is it technology disruption? Or something else. That and more in another edition of 3TB. Please...

In this episode, we look at the need and value of regulations in the world of crypto. Currently, the crypto market seems to be a mix of greed and speculation with the potential to hurt investors in the long term - hence the need to regulate. And historically we have never been able to self-regulate. Please Record Your Question / Feedback Here. Or email us at 3TB@unblox.com. We look forward to hear...

This week the creators of unblox continue the blockchain theme and delve into its native use case – Cryptocurrency. The episode also decodes the world outside bitcoin; topics like different kinds of tokens, exchanges, NFTs, crypto as an asset class and more. Stay tuned for next week's episode, which will look at the space through the lens of regulation. And don't forget to subscribe to the show. P...

The Creators of unblox are back this week to unblox the blockchain. Listen to this episode,  to explore trending topics like Blockchain, Crypto and of course NFT's Stay tuned for next week's episode, which explores the nuances of Cryptocurrency, crypto as an asset class and more. And don't forget to subscribe to the show. Please Record Your Question / Feedback Here. Or email us at 3TB@unblox.com....

What's this buzz around "Meta verse". Well you will find it all in this episode of #3TB. Join us in today's discussion on the topic "Jai Meta Di" aka "Meta Verse". Don't forget to subscribe the show as our next episode will be filled with super fun and compelling insights on "Blockchain".  Please Record Your Question / Feedback Here. Or email us at 3TB@unblox.com. We look forward to hearing from y...