New Delhi, June 14 -- I am part of a generation that has seen the advance of technology change the world radically, especially in communications. Just 40 years ago, it was difficult to get a landline phone connection, and if you did, calling people up was a ritual that involved speaking with switchboard operators. Between my high school years and early 30s, a span of just 15 years, we went from the novelty of wireless "brick phones" to the call-and-text-only feature phones to the earliest smartphones, a positively dizzying pace of change.

As a natural progression, it was inevitable that smart devices would take up residence on our wrists (as they soon will around our necks, in our glasses, and who knows where else) and start challenging ...