Aashish Chandorkar Bloomberg Opinion

A recent Credit Suisse study talked about how 100 unicorns - firms with more than $1 billion valuation - have sprung up in India in just a few years

On April 11, India recorded almost 170,000 Covid-19 cases, a record for the country since the start of the pandemic.

In the futurist law now named after him, the late Stanford University computer scientist Roy Amara once declared, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." India's public digital infrastructure - in many ways, an immense online bureaucracy - is an outlier to this principle.

A recent Credit Suisse study talked about how 100 unicorns - firms with more than $1 billion valuation - have sprung up in India in just a few years

On April 11, India recorded almost 170,000 Covid-19 cases, a record for the country since the start of the pandemic.

In the futurist law now named after him, the late Stanford University computer scientist Roy Amara once declared, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." India's public digital infrastructure - in many ways, an immense online bureaucracy - is an outlier to this principle.