Parallel Lives
With all the growth and developments in India, most of the cities seem to be bursting at the seams with shortages of electricity, water and space on the road !
Of course, I am optimistic that India is only going through a temporary phase of growing pains. I believe there are three key things required for a countries development - Intellectual assets, natural resources and physical infrastructure. In my opinion, physical infrastructure is the easiest thing to set up. As long as you have the money, building a road just takes time, whereas if your population is dumb, nothing can help you. And of course, Indians have a good amount of brain power.
However, back to the topic - When I went to Chennai last time, I landed in the morning exactly during rush hour and it took me about 45 minutes to travel about 12 kms. When I was leaving, my flight was late at night and the same distance only took me about 15 minutes.
And this got me thinking ... A lot of the infrastructure we possess in India isnt used during the night - City roads are deserted, most schools are empty, etc ... I was wondering how it would be if we could split the population up into two parts - One that would work/study during the day and sleep during the night and with the other half sleeping through the day and working during the night.
This would instantaneously reduce demands on our infrastructure by half - Although this is extremely difficult to implement in its entirety, there is a trend towards something of this sort with the proliferation of call center jobs.
I for one, wouldnt mind working in the night, thats what I do currently as well.
Of course, I am optimistic that India is only going through a temporary phase of growing pains. I believe there are three key things required for a countries development - Intellectual assets, natural resources and physical infrastructure. In my opinion, physical infrastructure is the easiest thing to set up. As long as you have the money, building a road just takes time, whereas if your population is dumb, nothing can help you. And of course, Indians have a good amount of brain power.
However, back to the topic - When I went to Chennai last time, I landed in the morning exactly during rush hour and it took me about 45 minutes to travel about 12 kms. When I was leaving, my flight was late at night and the same distance only took me about 15 minutes.
And this got me thinking ... A lot of the infrastructure we possess in India isnt used during the night - City roads are deserted, most schools are empty, etc ... I was wondering how it would be if we could split the population up into two parts - One that would work/study during the day and sleep during the night and with the other half sleeping through the day and working during the night.
This would instantaneously reduce demands on our infrastructure by half - Although this is extremely difficult to implement in its entirety, there is a trend towards something of this sort with the proliferation of call center jobs.
I for one, wouldnt mind working in the night, thats what I do currently as well.
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