InfoFire sat down with Ajai Chowdhry, co-founder of HCL, often hailed as the father of India’s hardware industry. His personal story mirrors that of the nation: born in the turbulence of Partition, tested through decades of technological nation-building, and still relentless in his mission to make India a true product nation.
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In the early 1970s, bold predictions emerged about the coming of a “paperless society.” The concept was first formally introduced by F. W. (Frederick Wilfrid) Lancaster, an information scientist and professor at the University of Illinois, who envisioned that advances in information technology would make paper largely obsolete by the year 2000. In 2025, Lancaster’s once-ambitious vision appears closer to fulfilment. The long-envisioned dream of a paperless society is gradually becoming a tangible reality, as many sectors including education, commerce, governance and healthcare now rely significantly less on paper for their daily operations.
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Behind every “You May Also Like” video sits an algorithm — an invisible curator quietly shaping what we see and what we don’t. Most of us accept this invisible hand as usual. We know it’s there, even if we don’t fully understand it. But for older adults, those who first learned about the world through newspapers, radio, and television, the logic of these recommendations can be confusing.
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For coastal communities affected by climate change, digital commons go beyond technological inclusion as they are building the foundations of information empowerment and resilience. In this article we propose that digital commons can be a powerful model for information empowerment in coastal regions of developing countries. We illustrate this through our project, in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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Instant gratification means getting what you want right away, without waiting. Think of ordering food online and having it at your door in minutes, or scrolling through social media for quick likes and laughs. This idea has become a hot topic when talking about younger people: Generation Z (born 1997-2012) and Generation Alpha (born 2013-2025).
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In an era of misinformation, Finland stands out for one simple reason: people trust its information systems. This article explores how ethics, policy, and education combine to make that trust possible, and what other democracies can learn from it.
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In traditional information systems, preservation is paramount, deletion represents data loss. MemGPT challenges this paradigm by implementing strategic forgetting through two key mechanisms: summarization and targeted deletion.Â
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When a harsh peer review exposed systemic bias, the author drew on established and emerging research to envision AI‑powered Review Reveal: a tool that flags exclusionary reviewer language, maps critiques to manuscript sections, audits equity‑related phrasing, and suggests inclusive rewrites — protecting intellectual freedom and making global digital knowledge culture more accessible to under‑represented and all participating scholars.
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When you step into your local public library on a typical afternoon, you might see children and their families gathered for story time, a retiree reading in a corner, or a student hunched over a laptop. But, just as often, librarians encounter a very different scene: a patron in crisis. Public libraries have increasingly become places where people facing houselessness, mental health crises, or other personal struggles turn for help.
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We’ve been sold a lie about human-AI collaboration. The truth is far more unsettling: humans and AI don’t operate on different levels—they operate in fundamentally incompatible realities. One experiences genuine uncertainty and constructs meaning through time; the other executes pattern-matching in milliseconds without ever “knowing” anything at all. It’s time to stop pretending they’re teammates and start designing for what they actually are: oil and water.
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