Tap fruits of knowledge revolution to make country developed: Kalam

Coimbatore, Dec 18 (UNI) President A P J Abdul Kalam today said the country has an opportunity to take the leadership in the knowledge revolution and it is the foundation for leading India into a developed nation.

Delivering his address during the Golden Jubliee Celebration of Coimbatore Institute of Technology here, he said the ascending trajectory of country's economy, availability of great institutions for capacity building of the human resource, abundant bio-diversity, and other natural resources are positive vibes for making the nation a developed one.

Speaking on the 'convergence of technologies', the President said the information technology and communication technology had already converged leading to Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Information Technology combined with bio-technology has led to bio-informatics. He said, ''at present the Nano-technology is knocking at our doors and it is the field of the future that will replace microelectronics and many fields with tremendous application potential in the areas of medicine, electronics and material science''.

He said when Nano Technology and ICT meet, integrated silicon electronics, photonics are born and it can be said that material convergence will happen. With material convergence and biotechnology linked, a new science called Intelligent Bioscience will be born which would lead to a disease free, happy and more intelligent human habitat with longevity and high human capabilities.

He said ''the convergence of bio-nano-info technologies can lead to the development of nano robots. Nano robots when they are injected into a patient, it will diagnose and deliver the treatment exclusively in the affected area and then the nano-robot gets digested as it is a DNA based product.

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