Technology and India

The immense growth in the outsourcing market has transformed India into a global powerhouse in the field of technology. This more recent transformation can be traced to a discovery made by engineers at Tata Consultancy Services who in 1995 discovered that a software tool that they had “developed to convert code for IBM, could be used to change the date field in other programs.” This discovery, of course, attracted interest from around the globe in the pre-Y2K world.

The preeminent Information Technology companies within India today include Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, and Infosys. Indian sales in the arena of high technology are expected to more than double in the next few years.

With a population of over a billion people and an exploding middle class, India is a also a vast consumer of technology. Cellphone usage is expected to skyrocket (Monthly service costs between $4 and $7) in this highly competitive market. The demand for inexpensive computers and internet devices will also continue to grow exponentially within the Indian marketplace.

It is important to note that the history of technology in India dates back to prehistoric times (9,000 BCE). Both ancient and modern India has contributed much to the advancement of science, the different schools of mathematics, medicine, architecture, industrialization, et al.

http://news.cnet.com/Indias-renaissance-Move-over,-China/2009-1041_3-5751994.html

History of Indian science and technology, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Indian_science_and_technology&oldid=330902254 (last visited Dec. 21, 2009).