Tag: digital era

New frontier

And online gaming which includes real money games (RMG), fantasy games, mobile-centric/casual games, and e-sports has emerged as an integral part of the wave of digitalisation the world is currently witnessing.

April 7, 2021

Film has suddenly lost its charm: Amitabh Bachchan

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who met multiple Oscar-nominated filmmaker Christopher Nolan to talk about celluloid films in the digital era, rules that film has lost its charm due to the growth of digitalisation. “The word film has suddenly lost its charm, for there does not seem to be any need to shoot films on film. It’s …

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April 2, 2018

A ‘handy’ guide to human behaviour

Title: Hands: What We Do with Them – and Why; Author: Darian Leader; Publisher: Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 128; Price: Rs 499 If you think the current trend of people, publicly and privately, paying ferocious attention to their smartphones or other handheld devices and furiously typing, clicking or scrolling away is technology making a …

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September 4, 2017

A smart life in the digital era

These days, I have been getting more and more chances to experience the internet of things (IoT), which means internet-connected devices and objects that can be controlled remotely. Recently I visited an experimental “smarthouse” at Kyoto Sangyo University in Kyoto that, using such technology, allows one to experience how homes might be in a decade. …

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February 1, 2017