C Raja Mohan writes: Beyond the manifestos, technology challenges for India’s next government

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Technology policy is arguably too esoteric to figure in India’s election discourse this season. But the next government in Delhi will have its hands full in dealing with the impact of the rapidly unfolding technological changes on the major economies, the geopolitical rivalry between them, and the global governance of artificial intelligence, space industrialisation, and the bioeconomy. Above all, the next government will have to focus on a wide range of internal reforms to make India ready to gain command over emerging technologies. The rest of the world is not waiting. Consider the massive new campaign in China on mastering...