Magic began with "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
It was almost half a century ago when Claude Shannon published his famous paper, leading the way to digital revolution. His proposed idea was to encode information in the form of bits, which would minimize the amount of noise that can impact the message within a channel.
The revolutionary idea of representing information in simple units such as bits, or more simply put On or Off has laid foundation stone to the Computing revolution, which in the most part took place in America.
At that time America had just emerged from World War and was one of the bank rollers to break the Nazi code of the Enigma Machine. It was soon after the war during the peace time, America successfully attracted the scientist who worked on countering Nazi. This led to birth of Transistors and all those fascinating computing devices we see today.
Bringing this discourse to the realm of GIFT city we see that the vision was to create a hub for such activities to take place. Though in present time India struggles to do away from its dependence on the instruments invented and designed in America, manufactured in China.
Entrepreneurs say from DAI-ICT who may share the streak of genius that Claude Shannon did, then we may just have a chance. Though what made Claude most successful was the environment ecosystem in which he flourished both at MIT as well as Bells Laboratory.
GIFT City if it does manage to attract entrepreneurs, who can design indigenous computing platform, one can surely see as technology develops and matures so shall its ability to attract more talent and financing for the same.
Though concluding at this note: for last 50 years we have been using Digital Computers can the next 50 years be of Analog Computing or say Quantum Computing? Would GIFT city be able to nurture and supply such talent?
