So ask people stunned by ChatGPT’s ability to provide well-written, coherent answers. Since people with even modest writing skills can use ChatGPT to come up with fairly well-structured, error-free communications, they infer that writing will no longer be a prized skill. Let us step back and look at this another way. When typewriters were in... Continue Reading →
Will ONDC repeat UPI’s success for India
That we could make payments via mobile across the spectrum, from street vendors to high-end retail outlets, would have looked far-fetched even a decade ago. Today, people are making road trips across India without needing cash. That’s how mainstream Unified Payments Interface (UPI) has become in India. Consider the ripples UPI created in the ecosystem:... Continue Reading →
Can Threads Replace Twitter?
Last week, Meta released Threads, its competitor to Twitter. Threads has been launched as a standalone app based on Instagram. Not the political type? Threads plans to stay away from politics and hard news. As experiences of both Facebook and Twitter show, conversations around politics attract negativity and scrutiny that are best avoided. Bit ironical,... Continue Reading →
Musings by Madhav 