India’s AI railway moment
By
Binu Mathew
Artificial intelligence will shape the 21st century much as steam power, railways, electricity, and the telegraph shaped the 19th. Those technologies reordered global power, transformed economies, and elevated nations that mastered them. Britain rode them to empire; the US built institutions around them to emerge as the dominant global power. The world we inhabit today is their inheritance.
AI is that kind of technology. And for India, the stakes are civilisational.
