Manjula Nair
Web Designer, DBS
Infotech, Coimbatore

It is going to be very difficult to ignore the importance of IT, says this 25 year old Web designer. Not only does she feel that IT will be inevitable in our lives five years from now, it will also make life simpler by making us smarter. Already dependent on IT for designing websites for her clients, she cant do away with its growing eminence in the way she functions, from shopping online to connecting with her family via video chat. She also stands by her view that no matter how overwhelming IT might become, creativity will be insurmountable for IT.

Cherry Annaiah
Architect, WS Apkins, Bangalore

Her clients demand that their work areas be spruced up and turned into lively places. Helical structures, bright colors, and stylish food courts are the order of day. And this is where the challenge lies for her for this architect. We have clients like Satyam and Infosys telling us they want something abstract. She sees IT as an important element aiding her design buildings that suit the changing taste of her client in the future. As her designs get more complicated, the software aiding her design will be a class apart. IT will certainly help her beat future challenges.

Kanika Sood
Executive Producer, Zee Business, New Delhi/NCR
There is probably nothing that goes on in our studio without a touch of IT. Right from shooting to editing and finally airing a show, IT is involved every step of the way. However, for this assistant producer, IT would be the power behind her changing channels of her television set, just by calling out the name of the channel she wants to watch, touching the remote would be a bygone. Or better still, sitting in a boring meeting, she expects to have her favorite TV show on her mobile phone, and she is sure IT will soon allow her to do so.

K Kiran Kumar
Team Leader IBM, Bangalore

The IT industry has not only showed me new ways of effective communication but also has enlightened me with new strategies to deal with customers from different geographies, says Kiran. My interaction with clients from the developed countries has helped me understand the manner in which IT industries function in these countries in comparison to the Indian scenario. The analogy definitely helps in learning and unlearning a lot of things, it also offers scope for value addition, he feels.

Chaitanya Medikonduri
Developer Support
Engineer, Microsoft, Bangalore
Spending hours talking to clients in the US and solving their technical problem, he knows that today, most of the IT work done in India is for the West, and that there is a long way to go for IT in India. According to him, a lot has changed in the last five years but even more is going to change in the next five years with IT. IT companies have planned for the next 50 years and though new software will be sophisticated in terms of developing it, its application is going to be much more simpler in the future for the users. IT will bring with it more exposure for the people. It is just a matter of time that every other home in India will have a computer.

Silvi Shah
Junior Doctor, LNJP Hospital, New Delhi
Comparing it to the present day situation, Silvi elevates IT to a level where it brings a sea of change for both her fellow doctors and patients who queue-up outside the hospital in hundreds everyday. She sees herself profiling her patients, entering their history and symptoms, fetching opinion from experts across the country, and conducting the preliminary test, all at the click of a button. Silvi is confident that digitization of patients records and e-medicine, which is already happening in small capacities, will save a lot of man power that goes in to fetching records or collection lab results.

Vaibhav Shastry
Faculty Computer Maintenance Corporation, Mumbai
The IT industry now offers diverse employment opportunities, says Vaibhav, There are ample number of openings emerging in India for people aspiring for a career in this sector. He has seen his classmates getting into excellent jobs with promising careers in IT, and handsome pay packages. And all they needed was a little exposure to basic technology education. Technology has become ubiquitous, and hence career in technology, he feels, will never let you down.

Vasundhara Singh
Content Writer, HT Media, New Delhi
Simplifying and making life much more easier is how Vasundhara puts the repercussions of growth of IT. Already, each one of us is so affected by it that in the future, it will just get bigger and better. Improvement, expansion and more usability of IT and its application is surely slated for future.

Aditi Pany
Programme Associate, Asoka Innovators for the Public, New Delhi
Aditi dabbles in two disparate worlds. One, that has people like her integrating their lives with technology every step of the way. And the other, that has 65% of the waiting to be the facilitator and a beneficiary of technology. She works at the grass-root level, for the people who are untouched, leave alone being swept by the on going IT wave, and is cognizant with the potential that IT has for them. For her, IT is worthy of being a tool for governance for the rural masses where IT has barely scratched the surface. There will be a two-way communication process, where someone can raise a query, the government answers, a reaction is generatedall using IT, says Aditi.

Neelam Kapadia
Entrepreneur, FineJewelryVault.com, New York

I expect IT to become the vital part of everyday life. In a world that is becoming interdependent and with the rise of small businesses, the biggest challenge will be how to make it easier for the customer, and the solution is IT, says Neelam Kapadia. After completing his education, seeing the jumps in e-commerce and the online IT market, he collaborated with his father to start a jewelry website. Today, not only does he run a successful website, FineJewelryVault.com, he has hands on experience in using the latest IT applications. He sees IT solving two major problems for e-commerce. First is a real-time solution to seeing products prior to purchase, and second, is a lengthy checkout process that requires input from customers and often becomes redundant and annoying. I also see the future of IT as a bridge between countries across the world, concludes young entrepreneur.

Pallavi Tyagi Bhuchar
Design Engineer, Augen Technologies, Bangalore

Pallavi holds a masters in automotive engineering from Germany and credits IT for simplifying life, making communication easier, and reducing boundaries. She firmly believes that IT will continue to be a high growth industry, acting as a medium for growth in other industries. Not stopping at that, she points out that IT will bring two extremes of the same rope, the seller and the consumer closer to each other, facilitate research across geographies and eventually, act as a catalyst for development of new technologies. This design engineer sure has all ITologies in place.

Pranil Dasika
Search Engineer, Guruji.com, Bangalore
The Es of the Internet revolution from e-banking to e-trading have changed his life great deal, mainly by saving time and increasing convenience, and more so, helped him focus a lot more on what he is best atengineering. Talking about future prospects he says smart homes and offices will become much more easier for individuals. Distinguishing IT as instrumental for helping save lives from natural disasters in the near future, Pranil also feels IT to be an instrument for educating the masses about health. In the future, IT can possibly spread its wings to the farming community. But, information security will be an area of focus for countries and companies, he concluded.

Caroline Castelino
Quality Control Engineer, Tarang Software
Technologies

Caroline feels that to survive in the booming and competitive IT business it is necessary to constantly re-invent and also be in the right organization; one that would nurture the innovations. Change is the only constant factor in IT. Innovative ideas make path-breaking ventures possible. As IT is becoming all prevalent, its exclusivity is now lost, which means IT is no longer the stronghold of a chosen few. More and more people are joining the IT bandwagon, and are forging their way with successful careers, she says.

Rohit Janakaran
Radio Jockey, Fever 104 FM, Bangalore
Between the hustle-bustle of the city, Rohit, one of Fever 104 FM Bangalores most popular RJ, paints the town with his smooth talk everyday. For his every listener, he is a friend. However, Rohit befriends IT in his fully digital soundproof studio and cannot imagine how he would ever get along without the convenience that IT has brought with it. I think that IT will continue to become and integral and eventually an invisible part of our lives. When I say invisible, I mean that we will very soon just take technology for granted. It will be in every part of our lives, from cash counters in shops to regulating of our traffic signals, says the energetic jockey. For Rohit, the future of IT is not just bright; it is a happy and efficient one.

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