I'd like to start off by saying that I was born in India and have visited India many times. I think it has good things and bad things. But with modern technology, India would be ten times better than before and its people would be blessed with many great things. Then people from other countries like the U.S.A couldn't really say many bad things about India because they wouldn't be true. So now I would like everyone to know how India could benefit from modern technology.

I am proud to say that recently a great technological advance came to India. Video E-mail was introduced in India! And it is only in India! You have to pay about fifteen rupees and you can send a video and your voice message by email to a relative or friend hundreds of miles away. You don't even need a computer. Just go to a video e-mail center and you can send your message in minutes. You can also pay a little extra to have an account there and have your pictures and sound stored there for future retrieval. This is especially beneficial to people who are illiterate and who live in big cities like Bombay and their family lives in remote villages in U.P. or Bihar.

It is important to note that India is one of USA's top trading partners for trading electronics goods including computer software, and other electronic goods.

First of all if the Internet were widely used throughout India, it would really be great. Well, people could send e-mail instead of normal snail mail which moves at the speed of a snail. E-mail is much faster and cheaper than normal mail. It is almost instantaneous. Then people could also save money. India's people could access valuable information such medical information and how to build certain things. People could also access things that they like such as sports and computers. Finally children could use the Internet to help them with their homework. The Internet has things for all kinds of people. If satellite communication was widely used in India, people could then get accurate weather reports, watch channels from other countries on T.V and the government can use it for spying on enemy countries. Indeed, satellite technology could bring the world closer to India.

Well for Indian people's health, better transportation could be used. Very fast aircraft could be used to take sick people from a village to a hospital. The same should happen to ambulances. Then hospital personnel could reach remote places faster to take people to hospitals faster. Instead of using cars, people could use cheap aircraft. Although this might take some time, people will be less likely to be late for work and other situations that require the person to get to another place quickly. Everyone in India then should be outfitted with cellular phones. People could be connected to a national phone network. So people could be in constant touch with each other. So in case of an emergency, people could call each other quickly and easily, with hardly any hassles and long waits. People should also have more than one phone line. Then an Indian can use one line for the Internet and the other line for contacting people. The cellular phones should be put in a lot of places, such as cars.

What about rockets and space shuttles? U.S.A and Russia are the two leading countries of space exploration. Well I think India should be a leading country that could explore space without costing the country too much money. Rockets should frequently be used to launch satellites. If many rockets were made, India could replace airplanes with rockets. Rockets are about six times faster than airplanes. But if rockets will be used a lot, than they should be powered by something other than oil or coal or other fossil fuels. Than the fossil fuels will run out very quickly. So rockets should be run by solar power. That means the rockets should take a round around the sun so they can charge up.

And now for some technologies that are not as important as the ones above but could still help India a lot.

What about TVs where when you touch it something happens. It is kind of odd but it will help out. For example, if people were asked to vote for someone, instead of filling out forms, buttons could pop up on the TV and the person could touch it with his/her finger and it would electronically go to the government. How about pagers? Well pagers are already in India, but they should be linked to many different stations all across India and with satellite so someone could page a person from Denmark! Laptops should be given to high school and college students. They could access the Internet in the classroom, interact with different schools on the web, make their own web sites and do research on the Internet instead of reading many books which would take an awful lot of time.

And now last but not the least, more machines should be used on the farms instead of people. Right now all farmers in the U.S are using tractors while in India most farmers are still using the primitive plow with oxen. So all farms should have tractors that require no person to operate it. So you could just program commands into the tractor and it will do all the jobs it has to do. The same should happen to other farm machines, such as seed dispensers. And then the person will be saving time and could rest. An automated system should run the farm. So eggs would be automatically be collected. Cows would be milked with no trouble. The crops and things would also be automatically be shipped to supermarkets by small robots that will carry the shipment.

Well, it might cost the country are great deal of money, but the country could earn a lot more profit and the people will be healthier and would have to work less and generally be happier!

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