India, Nov. 9 -- From steam engines to silicon, from diesel to digitisation, from hardware to algorithms, from horsepower to AI jockeys - the world has been taking one big turn after another. But some questions, somehow, keep haunting every jump, every switch and every revolution. Guzzling energy just changes the straw not the appetite. Carbon footprint simply accumulates in a different form of horse-dung. The pattern continues with AI. Let's ask someone who can show a full swing from diesel to new energy realities as he shows us the balanced grip on the new world we are moving towards. Can we ever turbo-charge progress without cranking down sustainability? Mendonca tells us why, and why not.

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