The strategic plan spoke about personal computers, AI, supercomputing, and the ‘convergence of computers and communications into information technology and biotechnology’. “It was quite a forward-looking paper,” says Ashutosh Tyagi, former vice-president of Tata Industries who has been on the board of several Tata companies. “He could foresee some of these things becoming big, maybe not immediately, but in the coming years. In fact, when I wrote the strategy for Tata Industries in 2007-08, it still had many of those same terms that he had used 24 years back. At that time, I felt that some of these things would never happen. But things have obviously changed in the past five-six years for some of these technologies,” adds Tyagi.
