A cold start to the premier startup event but nothing could have predicted what was in store. On stage was Atul Chitnis who started with a basic but effective power point presentation. Nothing jazzy or stylish, just a black background with white crisp text on it and no logoHe started with bold statements such as:
“The world is changing”
“The PC is dying”
The world is changing!!! Yes indeed. But the PC is dying???? Like me, it shocked quite a few others in the room. So why did Chitnis think that the PC is dying?
Desktop PC sales have been flattened if not slumped and people are moving towards laptops. But aren’t laptops PC too? Chitnis disagrees. He says that the laptops are a milestone between PCs of today and the next BIG thing of tomorrow and this BIG breakthrough will have mobile communication as its platform.
Will it? My judgement and the road signs I see around me tell me that it will. The devices you carry in your pocket and the rate at which they are becoming smaller are all witnesses to this next Global MicroJump. If Thomas Friedman were here, he would probably term it as a WEB 4.0 in the making.
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