Sorry VK, the trophy had our name written on it and you couldnt have taken it away from us. More Details By some The other President or by the SpokesBlah!

Maanick

‘Change’- as they say- is the way of life. Moore’s Law predicted that the processing power of computers would double every eighteen months, and boy, haven’t those predictions come true!

In 1975, we could just begin to envisage what computers could do. Kenneth Olsen, President and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation remarked in 1977 that:

“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer at home.�

“The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us,� said Western Union Internal Memo in 1876.

Today, computers, software and the internet are creating opportunities for people everywhere. It is expanding productivity, firing imaginations with creativity and putting dreams of people in their own hands!

The future promises to be brighter.

The clock dates the second of February, 2013 and it’s my mother’s birthday- her golden jubilee! I, at Harvard Business School, am miles away from home and my mother, my heart and soul making me passionate vis-à-vis giving my mother a revelation- a big one!

Everyone in my family is connected over a 10Mbps satellite internet connection, a tera-hertz computer, a million pixel CCD video camera and shared calendars. I instantly fix up a time for the big one, when every one is at his terminal be it at home, work or school and blast! My potential, mind’s imagination and creativity and tools were technology’s most precious gifts take me and my family into a virtual party with the presence of all loved ones. Sharing laughter, tears, memories and even a virtual dinner- technology gets it all happening – from different parts of the globe!

The future of technology shall have the most profound impact on the professional dimension of human life. Imagine I am the CEO of ArcTech®, the largest architecture and design firm on the globe. I get a client with a great project at hand – designing a 267-storied tall tower. The client talks over VoIP from the state of New York in the United States to me in my office in Taipei. The deal gets finalized and a contract summary expected by the client within the hour. I make a brief overview of the proposed project and share it with my Director of Operations at New York over optical-fiber video conferencing. Soon the officer contacts me back with the complete outline which is passed with amendments by the board and I put it back to the client. He approves, gets inspired by our on-time synchronized work and gives us two more projects. That’s $1 billion worth of profit signed up for in just 44 minutes- by the clock! Isn’t it work@thought, powered by technology?

“A good teacher teaches,

A better teacher explains,

A great teacher demonstrates,

But the best one inspires!�

Information and communication technology shall help inspire the creative genius of potential Einsteins and Newtons and lead to more innovative and path breaking discoveries. A virtual classroom where even villagers are taught by some of the most renowned teachers on the earth (precise the purpose of India’s EDUSAT satellite), where live discussions is made through V-SAT classrooms and problems resolved by a virtual online community are all the future promises of technology.

Information and communication technology shall also redefine medical care by introducing telemedicine and e-consulting on a practical and accessible scale – all contributions that shall make the world a global village

In short, how the growth of Information and Communication technology shall affect my future can be beautifully summarized in the following quatrain:

“Technology indeed forms the backbone of the future-

Potential it has to heal and to nurture:

Time shall make grow to attain a new height;

And it shall make my future- happy, prosperous and bright!�

–Gopal

EXUN 04 Senior Quiz Final Round Questions available at:

http://www.ankit.org/EXUN/

Gaming

1. DPS, RKP : Shyamrup
   
   
2. DPS, RKP : Arnav
   
   
3. Frank Anthony Public School : Vijay

Crossword

1. DPS RKP : Karan Misra & Maanick Nangia
2. DPS VK : Uday Kanwar & Arun Vijayvergia
3. Apeejay Sheikh Sarai : Ankit Sud && DPS RKP : Bhavya Khanna & Abhishek Gaur

Junior Quiz Final

1. Mothers Int. School : Harshdeep Sinha & Kartik Dhar
   
   
2. DPS VK : Gaurav Trivedi & Himanshu Nayar
   
   
3. DPS RKP : Dhruv Kumar & Gursartaj Singh

Also, one of our teams has qualified for Senior Quiz, i.e., Maanick Nangia and Karan Misra.

–Karan

1. Ahlcon Public School : Apoorv & K. Shankar
   
   
2. Apeejay, Noida : Rijul & Shishil
   
   
3. DPS, R K Puram : Anant Jain & Abhijit
   
   
4. DPS, Rohini : Devanu & Siddhant
   
   
5. DPS, Vasant Kunj : Anshul & Gaurav
   
   
6. DPS, Vasant Kunj : Soumit & Himanshu
   
   
7. Mount St. Mary’s : Nipun & Shashank
   
   
8. Mount St. Mary’s : Anuj & Aby
   
   

–Karan

1. Ahlcon Public School : Nikhil & Nitin
   
   
2. Ahlcon Public School : Kartic & Pushkin
   
   
3. Amity Int., Noida : Rakshit & Animesh
   
   
4. Apeejay, Noida : Harpreet & Abhishek
   
   
5. APS, Dhaula Kuan : Mukund & Ankit
   
   
6. Bal Bharti, Bahadurgarh : Ashwini & Sarbpreet
   
   
7. Banyan Tree School : Aabhas & Neerav
   
   
8. Blue Bells School : Aditya & V. Rohit
   
   
9. DPS, RK Puram : Swati & Nikhil
   
   
10. DPS, RK Puram : Karan & Maanick
    
    
11. DPS, Vasant Kunj : Eeshan & Arun
    
    
12. DPS, Vasant Kunj : Sanyam & Vatsal
    
    
13. Gyan Bharati : Siddharth & Akshay
    
    
14. Gyan Bharati : Vaibhav & Rohan
    
    
15. Summerfield School : Vaibhav & Naveen

–Karan

Click here to read this very amusing article.

–Karan

Crossword

1. Apeejay Sheikh Sarai : Ankit Sud
   
   
2. DPS RKP : Bhavya Khanna & Abhishek Gaur
   
   
3. DPS RKP : Karan Misra & Manik Nangia
   
   
4. DPS VK : Uday Kanwar & Arun Vijayvergia
   
   
5. DPS VK : Eishaan Malhotra & Dhruv Chopra
   
   
6. Mothers Int. School : Kartik Dhar & Milind Ganjoo
   
   

Junior Quiz

1. DPS RKP : Dhruv Kumar & Gursartaj Singh
   
   
2. DPS RKP : Abhishek Suri & Manas Gautam
   
   
3. DPS VK : Gaurav Trivedi & Himanshu Nayar
   
   
4. DPS VK : Soumit Saha & Gundeep Bindra
   
   
5. Laxman Public School : Abhishek Mishra & Rohit Bansal
   
   
6. Mothers Int. School : Harshdeep Sinha & Kartik Dhar

There we go. We have two teams in both these, but mind you, so does VK. So, we have good chances of winning!

–Karan

Most people will argue that this entry was better posted as a comment, but that would undermine its importance and that is a risk that I cannot take. In a recent MSN chat with Karan, I have been advised to ask all members to vote for or against the idea of putting a Firefox button on the lnexun home page. In the previous post, this idea was opposed by none other than our sleeping president, Maanick Nangia, on grounds that because Mozilla does not sponsor us we should not have their logo on the homepage.

In my opinion this entire line of thinking is inherently defunct. We are not a corporate entity, we do not have to do everything on a profit only basis. We can and should do things because they are the right thing to do. Remember itÂ’s Exun, not Exun Inc.

Putting a button-link on the front page can hurt no one, but it might do good to a lot of people still stuck on Internet Explorer. Helping the spread of Firefox is just a good old fashioned right thing to do.

I suggested leave your votes as comments. Ayes support, Nays oppose.

–Nisheeth.