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In the Indian context, MIT Media Labs will have opportunities to work in myriad
fields of IT. The country, with its vast populace is constantly in need of technologies
and solutions that simplify the way we live and the work we do. In fact, technologies
dedicated to the upliftment of the masses and those designed to alleviate the life of
the common man are the need of the day. What we can hope to see from MIT
Media Labs India are IT applications for the masses; experiments in movie, video,
music and computer graphics; IT enabled services; IT for rural applications
and R & D in software, telecom and the Internet. Concepts such as video e-mail, cable
Internet, Multimedia, e-sanskriti, cyber
dhabas
,
cyber
mandis
,
e-vyapar
and
Gramin
Data Processing Centers are expected to touch new heights under the aegis of MIT
Media Labs. MIT Media Labs then is going to breathe a new life into the way
the country views innovation. Generation Next can certainly find a major platform
here for the fulfillment of its aspiration.
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