Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday, 30 July 2019

Data becomes an Air Molecule : Free to travel anywhere





Just came across following :




The Data Transfer Project wants to make it easy to move data between services



Highlights :

#   Just over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features.


Today, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, developing interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud.


A number of alternative social networks have also joined the project, with Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project enabling the import and export of contacts, and Mastodon allowing for the import and export of posts.


#  An open-source project aimed at making it easier to transfer data from one service to another, the Data Transfer Project has mostly consisted of back-end coding to make data export tools like Google Takeout and Facebook’s Access Your Information tool compatible with each other.


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I am tempted to reproduce from my earlier blog,


Nightmare ? #Aadhar #Privacy #DataProtection              [  04  March  2016  ] :




Extract :


#  Technology has advanced so far – and continues to accelerate even faster –
     that it is possible to treat “ Content ( personal  / private data ) “ like an air
     molecule , which keeps travelling freely around the earth and gets inhaled a
     trillion times ( content consumption ) by a billion humans . 


Introduction of 5G
     and Li-Fi technologies  will speed up this process even further




#   With the arrival of Quantum Computing , it will soon become possible for the
     same content ( personal / private data ) , to exist simultaneously at multiple
     places , but in differing formats



     A “ Text Posting “ on Facebook may well appear on different media as
     Voice  or  Image  or  Smell  or  Touch !




FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE READERS :


     Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the
     following  as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is concerned :

     
     “  Like Entropy , content keeps growing with each and every human
     interaction , either with other humans or with his environment , and content
     can no longer remain hidden , nor can it be destroyed  “


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What I envisaged above 3 years ago , seems to be around the corner



What is heartening is that many respectable persons and organizations have joined together to “ release the content “ from its  various “ bondages “ of websites – apps – databases – hardware – software applications – operating systems etc



It is high time Bureaucrats in charge of drafting our own Data Protection Bill, ask :



  At the rate at which data is getting generated / transmitted / transformed / mutated / migrated / consumed , by 7 billion citizens of the World, all without their knowledge or permission , is it at all possible to even “ define “ what is DATA ( and what is not ) , much less possible to “ protect / confine “ it in any manner  ?



Is it possible that “ indestructability “ of  Data renders futile all questions as to its “ Beginning / Origin “   or  its “ End “ ?



Will any Data Protection Law become obsolete even before the President signs it ?




Dear Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji,



Your mobile service provider ( MSP ) has the AUDIO-LOG of each and every word that you have ever spoken in your mobile phone . And if your MSP does not want to sell it, some one is bound to steal it  !



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31 July 2019

Rsvp :  hcp@RecruitGuru.com     



Monday, 29 July 2019

Microdot Technology : A solution in search of a problem ?




Just came across following report :



Highlights :


#  The proposal is to use a technology termed — microdot — which requires spraying the body and parts of the vehicle or any other machine with microscopic dots that can be read with a microscope and identified with a ultra violet light source, which give a unique identification.

Use of this technology will help check theft of vehicles and also use of fake spare parts, said an official release. This can potentially be used for mandatory vehicle recall as well.


#  The proposal includes amending Central Motor Vehicle Rules, to allowing motor vehicles and their parts, components, assemblies, sub-assemblies to be affixed with permanent and nearly invisible microdots that can be read physically with a microscope and identified with ultra violet light source. The Ministry has sought comments / objections on the draft notification within 30 days.


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What next ?


Ø   Forensic Labs for vehicles ? ( who else can afford microscope / UV light source ? )



Before we reach a stage of “ tracing stolen vehicle components / sub assys, “ , why are we unable to trace entire stolen vehicles for months and years – despite both the chassis and the engine block carrying unique ID numbers ?



In a typical Petrol /  Diesel vehicle, there are as many as 2,000 parts. Have you asked Car Manufacturers :



Ø  How soon can you install into your assy-line, this Micro-dot technology ?


Ø  What will it cost you for the microdot plant ?


Ø  What will be the additional “process cost “ to spray 2000 parts  ?


Ø   
Has the Road Ministry carried out a “ cost benefit “ analysis  of this scheme at national level   ?




Dear Shri Gadkariji,



If – and when – someone in Road Ministry takes up such a COST – BENEFIT analysis, I urge him to evaluate the following alternative :



Internet  of  Vehicles  (  IoV  )  ?                   04  March  2017  ]


Intelligent Transport System                           [  07  Oct  2017  ]


Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ?


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30  July  2019
Rsvp :  hcp@RecruitGuru.com


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Electric Vehicles : A Work in Progress ?





As far as EVs are concerned, some “ cautious “ reforms are being undertaken as can be seen from following news :





A good beginning but  small and hesitating !


From one of my earlier email to Cabinet Ministers , I summarize the reforms that are essential for our EV dream to materialize – with least possible disruption to the Buyers / Manufacturers :




What would you recommend next ?

FAME  III  (  Apr  22  -  Mar 26  ) – 4 years



[ A ]….. MANUFACTURERS


( A.1 )   Policy Instrument >  Corporate Income Tax  for  Incentivizing the manufacturers of
            Batteries


( A.2 )  Abolish Corporate Income Tax ( for 10 years ) for the entire E Mobility Eco-System

( A.3 )  Incentivizing the E Vehicle manufacturers



( A.4 )   Dis-incentivize manufacturers for production of Petrol / Diesel vehicles


( A.5 )  Incentivizing manufacturers to get into the “ Recycling of Old Vehicles “



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[  B  ]   BUYERS



( B.1 )  Incentivize for purchase of E Vehicles – especially, leasing of buses


( B.2 )  Incentivize Retro-fitting of old Petrol / Diesel vehicles 

           ( those which are non-compliant with BS VI norms )



( B.3 )  Incentivize to switch-over to E Bikes



( B.4 )  Policy Instrument  >  Taxing all Vehicles based on their “ Harm Quotient “ for

           environment



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[  C  ]   GOVERNMENT

 


( C.1 )  Policy Instrument  >   Wet Leasing  [  Thank You , Shri Jaitleyji  / 25  Dec  2018  ]

 

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[   D  ]  PASSENGERS OF  PUBLIC  TRANSPORT ( Non-Vehicle Owners )

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[  E  ]   SOLAR  POWER  for  ELECTRIC  VEHICLES


            Policy  Instrument  >  Amendment to Electricity Act


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FAME  IV  [  April  2026 – March 2030  ]  -  4  YEARS


At the end of FAME II /  FAME  III  ( 3 + 4 = 7  years  ) , government must focus its attention and efforts on finding and implementing, long term solutions .


 Solutions which are aimed at “ Reducing Vehicles “ of all kinds from roads, by “ Reducing Need to Travel “

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Details of each of the above-mentioned reforms can be found at :


 1 )  EV juice from Alu-Air Battery ?                            [  16  Jan 2018 ]

 2)  Ashok Leyland is not waiting !                             [  17  Jan 2018  ]
 3)  Holy Grail for Electric Vehicles                             [  17 Feb 2018  ]

 4 ) Congratulations , Shri GopuKumarji                       [  30  Jan  2019  ]

 

  5 ) Ray , a drop of golden Sun                                    [  18  Feb  2019  ]



  6 ) A New Battery Could Store Ten Times the Power as Lithium-Ion  

  7 ) Piëch's electric coupe charges to 80 percent in five minutes



 8 ) From OLD to NEW ? No , go NEWER !                     [  22  Sept  2016  ]

 

 9 ) For EV , Andhra gets an A                                      [ 25  Dec  2017  ]

 

 10 )  NITI proposes : SIAM postpones                            [  20  Dec  2017  ]

 

  11 ) India : Energy Storage Mission                               [  04  Dec  2017  ]

 

 12 ) #Solarcar #Electriccar                                              [  07  Nov   2017   ]

 

  13 ) Holy Grail for Electric Vehicles                                    [  17  Feb  2018  ]

 

  14 ) #ISRO #MSME #ElectricVehicle                                   [  13  Nov  2017  ]

 

  15 ) EESL : Getting Away from Straitjacket ?                      [  26   Aug   2018   ]

 

  16 )   Solar Panels charging Li-ion Batteries of Electric Cars ?   [   04  May   2017  ]

 


  17 ) PIYUSH PLAN ?                                                             [  27  Mar  2016  ]

 

 18 ) Gathering Speed at Snail’s Pace ?                     [  02  Oct  2018  ]



 19 ) Car Grave-Yard of World ?                                [  14  Feb  2018   ]



 20 ) #EV #ElectricVehicles #EESL #WetLease           [  13  May  2018  ]



  21 ) SIAM seeks SOPS                                            [  27  Dec   2017  ]



22 )  Missing piece of Jigsaw Puzzle ?   /                       [ 15  Nov  2018  ]



  23 ) A Radical Radial Revolution !                               18  Aug  2016 ]




 25 ) Making Yourself Obsolete ?                                [   14  Feb  2016  ]



 26 ) Not Good Enough !                                            02  Dec  2017  ]



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29  July  2019

Rsvp :  hcp@RecruitGuru.com