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Future is apps: Nadella
“Hazaaron khwaishein aisi, ke har khwaish pe dum nikle. Bohot nikle mere armaan, fir bhi kam nikle” (I have a thousand desires, all desires worth dying for, though many of my desires were fulfilled, a majority remained unfulfilled).
New Delhi: “Hazaaron khwaishein aisi, ke har khwaish pe dum nikle. Bohot nikle mere armaan, fir bhi kam nikle” (I have a thousand desires, all desires worth dying for, though many of my desires were fulfilled, a majority remained unfulfilled).
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Monday invoked Ghalib to speak technology, quoting from one of the finest poems of the 19th century ‘shayar’ to drive home the power of dreams to youngsters of the country.
He said that poetry and computer science were his two passions that have inspired him and then quoted classical Urdu poet Ghalib with a flourish that left the geeky crowd spellbound.
He elaborated on that by saying: “My interpretation of Ghalib’s saying changes every year. I learn something new, there are so many layers and labyrinths in there that every time I sort of, I kind of feel like I’ve learnt it again, that I have figured it out...
it is not just your dreams being fulfilled, it is your ability to dream things that are worth dying for... the power of what we can do with digital technology.
That has to be the source of our inspiration, at least it has been for me as we think about the dreams going forward.” He spoke about infusing cognitive technology into apps or services that were going to be built and of building bots, bots that have a fundamental understanding of human language—just like how you built websites in the past, just like how you build mobile apps in the past.
“You are going to build these bot interfaces that understand human dialogue. And, it’s going to be a pretty profound shift in how computing is experienced by everybody. It’s probably going to be the most democratizing force and make it accessible to anybody, who is 80 years old or an 8-year-old,” said Nadella.
In between, he also spoke about his and the company’s dreams – about future apps to help drive innovation and empower the people of India. Nadella, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad among others later, is on his third visit to India since taking over as head of the world's top technology company. Nadella said Microsoft's mission "is to empower every person and organisation on the planet to achieve more.
"It's not about celebrating our technologies. It's about celebrating technologies that you all in India create. In fact, I want US to be the platform creators that foster the ingenuity of what is happening in India." In his meeting with Modi, Nadella discussed "various issues pertaining to the IT sector". Earlier in the day, Nadella met Prasad and discussed how Microsoft's contribution to the government's Digital India initiative can be enhanced.
Source:Agencies
