“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan and Jai Vigyan”

“Jai Jawan Jai Kisan and Jai Vigyan”

“Machined to Think” one of its kind exhibition inaugurated at the Nehru Science Centre on 9th May, 2018

On the occasion of the National Technology day (11th May)- the day when in 1998 the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to commemorate the peaceful successful testing of the Pokhran 2, modified the profound slogan that Prime Minister Lal Bhahadhur Shastri had coined “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” by stating “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan and Jai Vigyan” - an exhibition titled “Machined to Think”, which provides a bird’s eye view into the developments in science and technologies that are destined to usher in, what is now hailed as the, “fourth industrial revolution", was inaugurated (on the 9th May 2018) by Padma Vibhushan, Dr. Anil Kakodkar, one of the key architect and scientist who was responsible for the Pokhran 2 tests, at the Nehru Science Centre.

Addressing the gathering Dr Kakodkar, also the architect of the “Technology Vision 2035” document of the TIFAC that was released by the Honourable Prime Minister of India during the India Science Congress in 2016, said that the exhibition provides an excellent opportunity for the young minds (the students) to have a glimpse in to the technological developments of future in the areas of Cutting edge science and technology like the Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things , 3D printing and such other technologies that are shaping the modern world. Appreciating the title of the exhibition he said the human intelligence is helping in shaping the 4th industrial revolution with machined to think technologies that are destined to shape our future. He added that India which could not join the first three industrials Revolutions has a golden opportunity to join this fourth Industrial Revolution to benefit our citizens. He appealed the young students, who had gathered in large numbers, to harvest the benefits of science and technology by understanding the principles of science so as to maintain our competitiveness in technology. He complimented Nehru Science Centre for developing this timely exhibition. Also present on the occasion was Shri Sudheendra Kulkarni, Chairman, ORF, Mumbai.

Some of the fascinating immersive exhibits of the gallery include the Virtual Reality where the visitors are taken to the Antarctic to to be in the company of the Polar bears and penguins. The other exhibits include the Virtual topography, Brian waves controlled drone, peg mirror, augmented reality, robotic Rubik cube solver, artificial intelligence and others. These are some of the extraordinary technologies, among several other disruptive technological developments that will lead us to the fourth industrial revolution the term articulated by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. The benefits of the new technologies in the fourth industrial revolution will lead to reaping in benefits in fields like agriculture at an accelerated speed and transition toward high yield productivity and other rural economic benefits. This will immensely benefit India which has almost 60 percent of its population living in rural areas with agriculture as their main profession.

The combination of IoT technologies, digital tools, robotics, machine intelligence and 5G networks and all their building blocks will be central to the fourth industrial revolution, which will provide a wealth of opportunities for cooperation between machined to think technologies and humans to bring about a paradigm shift and vastly improve productivity and speed up the delivery of services for the welfare of citizens.

The response to the exhibition just after its opening was phenomenal. Although there are challenges a plenty in maintaining this gallery yet we are confident that this exhibition will immensely benefit our audience.