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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
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