{"id":900040,"date":"2025-01-27T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=900040"},"modified":"2025-01-27T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T02:53:43","slug":"nandan-nilekani-and-elon-musk-two-tech-tycoons-one-shared-goal-making-public-services-faster-smarter-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/27\/nandan-nilekani-and-elon-musk-two-tech-tycoons-one-shared-goal-making-public-services-faster-smarter-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Nandan Nilekani and Elon Musk: Two tech tycoons, one shared goal \u2013 making public services faster, smarter, more efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, tech moguls Nandan Nilekani and Elon Musk may seem like polar opposites. Nilekani, the architect of India\u2019s groundbreaking Aadhaar system and a key driver of UPI that revolutionised digital transactions, has devoted a big chunk of his career working through consensus to streamline India\u2019s overburdened public services. In contrast, Musk, the maverick entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, is a disruptor renowned for his boundary-pushing ambitions to colonise Mars and rewire human cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, tech moguls Nandan Nilekani and Elon Musk may seem like polar opposites. Nilekani, the architect of India\u2019s groundbreaking Aadhaar system and a key driver of UPI that revolutionised digital transactions, has devoted a big chunk of his career working through consensus to streamline India\u2019s overburdened public services. In contrast, Musk, the maverick entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX, and Neuralink, is a disruptor renowned for his boundary-pushing ambitions to colonise Mars and rewire human cognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}