Nirmal Singh Shekhawat
Legal Executive, Sahara India TV, New Delhi/NCR
Nirmal cant be more right when he says that IT will take us to a point where on one side, there would be major labor cutting, and one the other side, there will be remarkable improvement in efficiency. Already an essential tool for him to carry on the days work, he also confers IT with the most fast paced growth that, if reaches to the 65% of our populationrural India, will dramatically change the way people function. However, the onus of bringing about this change lies on the government. In the near future, legal recognition of online signatures and e-banking will see extensive adoption, concludes this servant of law.

Vasuki R
Technical Lead
Development Tarang Software Technologies

The growth of IT and its impact in the last decade has been tremendous. Citing Internet as an example he explains how it has become an inseparable part of peoples lives. I dont hear people talking about whether they have got the new version of Windows. The question often heard is what someone has been doing over the Internet lately, he says. The high growth in smart phones segment also means an automatic addition to the Internet user base. It makes me strongly believe that the future of IT is the network, says Vasuki.

Nalini Singh
Sub-Editor, The Asian Age, New Delhi
Nalini was not in tune with IT until her job demanded that she relies on it for her daily functioning. Adjusting was difficult and she was hesitant. But that was then. Today, IT has trickled down to even the basic chores like taking out money from the ATM. However, she refused to be a slave to the technology and turn into a machine. Nalini projects a future where at one end, technology might be reaching new levels, but on the other, it would ultimately be a matter of choice for the people. They would ultimately decide how much of IT they want in their lives. IT has already given me a lot of convenience. And that is enough. IT will see huge growth but I will see it as static, confides Nalini.

Vidya
SW Engineer Antenna Software, Bangalore

A young SW engineer, Vidya believes things will continue to change in the coming years, thanks to technology. Very contended with her career choice, she says IT holds a promising future for young people like us, because we know what we want from the careers we have chosen, Death of distance, she feels, is a wonderful advantage of the growing use of technology. She sees technology reducing the communication gap between people in the organization, making them work closely together, breaking hierarchy and legacy issues between the juniors and seniors.

Nilashish Basu,
Ad Words Representative
Google India, Hyderabad

IT has changed the life of the aam aadmi, says Nilashish.

Well, the common man has done pretty well for himself since the IT industry made a huge place for itself in the country. Though still some time away, the common man will master technology like hes mastered the telephoneIT will be as pervasive and as useful as the common cell phone is to the masses. As far as young IT professionals are concerned, Nilashish feels the young work force of India is now discharging more important responsibilities than it has ever before, resulting in increasing aspiration levels.

Nauzur Ahmed
Software Engineer, HP, Bangalore
Being an IT professional has certainly accentuated my personality, says Nauzur, One thing that distinguishes the software industry from the other industries is that you have to be at your intellectual best at all timesand that is challenging. He has no shred of doubt in his mind regarding the future of the software industry getting only brighter with time, with more and more sectors turning to IT for all their problem solving, which means new age software solutions.

Priyank Kharge
CMD Proficio Geotechnologies, Bangalore

The IT industry is growing at a rapid pace. We will witness advanced technologies and increased entry of chip manufacturers, is Priyanks take on the future of IT.

The future of IT largely relies on a spur in research activities. Already IT majors like Microsoft and Google are seen undertaking large scale research activities, he says. He thinks the young IT professionals are confident and open to risk taking, and that this ensures a great future for them. Entrepreneurship and innovativeness will be the driving factors in the IT industrys future with venture capitalists showing faith in the young entrepreneurs, he adds.

Chaitanya Tatineni
Healthcare Banking, ABN AMRO, London
In response to how much IT is going to affect him in the future, this upbeat investment banker and globetrotter, says, I want to say that I wouldnt like to be too dependent on IT in the future; that in the worst case scenario, I would rather leave everything and go farming. But, I dont think I have that luxury, for I dont know nothing about growing crops and I would still need Google to get a crash course! In the process, he has explained what the future holds for IT. A qualified engineer from IIT, IT has been an inseparable part of him since college days and even today, his job demands that he procures, process and act on information before competitors. We would expect him to put IT on a pedestal and endow the future with it, instead he quips that given the dynamic nature of IT, it is really difficult to picturise it at any point in the future, and that is what makes IT so exciting.

Abhishek Thard
Student, Nirma Institute of Business Management,
Ahmedabad
He is set to enter the world of IT soon and he sure has his facts straight. India is now outsourcing work to the third world like western Europe, Morocco, and Indonesia, mainly due to raising manpower cost. However, IT still has a great future due to the infrastructure we provide, tie-up with universities for human resource and e-Governance. According to him, we are already Googling half the time and booking our tickets online, so the dependency will remain in the future. In fact, he appears very optimistic about the e-Governance and that governance with IT at its core slated to be the thing of the future.

Ashwin Quadros
Content Developer
Yahoo!Search Marketing, Bangalore

IT has transformed the life of young people like us and the trend will only continue, says Ashwin Quadros. IT has opened up opportunities for even the non-techies, absorbing non-tech graduates. I have always loved surfing the net but never imagined that I would be working in the IT sector. Being a graduate in mass communication I thought the IT domain was only for techies, he says. IT definitely holds a great future for generations to come, having thrown open a platter of diverse job opportunities. IT has remarkably lessened the information divide, shrinking the world to bring people from various geographies and economies together, faster, says Aswin, though he feels much needs to be done to take Indian IT to the scale of developed economies.

Sandhya
Associate Project Manager, Information
Systems WeP Pheripherals, Bangalore
The dot net industry will grow at a steady rate, says Sandhya. IT has given her a new identity, and more value within the organization as well as outside. This is true with respect to all women working in various sections of the IT industry. IT has opened up opportunities even for people who dont have a formal engineering or hardcore professional degree in technology, she feels. A perfect example of which is she herself: having done a course from NIIT, today she finds herself working on par with software engineers.

Shikha Das & H Chethana Gadiyar
shikhad@cybermedia.co.in chethanag@cybermedia.co.in

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