New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- The coming decade will be unlike anything we have seen before. Multiple technology shifts are maturing in parallel: the intelligence revolution and rise of digital labour; breakthroughs in frontier technologies like biotechnology and advanced materials; compute moving from centralized data centres to the intelligent edge; and quantum applications becoming real in areas such as drug discovery, defence and logistics.

This convergence is unprecedented. It can unlock enormous economic value-but it also expands risk exposure at a speed that governments are not prepared to manage.

As India aspires to celebrate the centenary of our independence as a developed nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeatedly reminded us...