New Delhi, March 11 -- 'The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.'

This sharp observation by Rupert Murdoch cuts to the heart of how power works in the modern world. Size no longer guarantees survival. Speed does. The rules of competition have been rewritten, and many have not noticed yet.

The quote speaks to a shift that is visible everywhere. Large corporations with decades of dominance are being overtaken by nimble startups.

Established media empires are losing ground to individual creators with a smartphone and an idea. Governments that move slowly are being outpaced by technologies they barely understand.

Murdoch, born in Melbourne on 11 March 1931, built one of the mo...