Regulatory Sovereignty in India: Indigenizing CompetitionTechnology Approaches, ISAIL-TR-001
for centuries against capitalism and its colonial guises. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson reflects on rationality but from the perspective of human meaning. She affirms a meaning that “is derived not through content or data or even theory but through a compassionate web of interdependent relationships that are different and valuable because of difference.” Why difference exactly? Because only by respecting difference do, we stand any chance of not “interfering with other beings’ life pathways” and their possibilities for autonomy. To add on the same, it becomes important to estimate the role of societies. There cannot be absolute technocratic aspects. There is also a big need to address such a kind of issue, which – at least for India being the target of assessment – must be dealt with developing solutions, which decolonise – and provide affirmative solutions catering to Indian interests, realities and ecosystems, combined. The same has been dealt in the forthcoming sections.
The Problem of ‘Omnipotence’ and ‘Omnipresence’ in Sectors and their Intersectional Relationship What are Omnipotence & Omnipresence? • Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited or very great power. Omnipotence is a virtue that is associated with the idea of unlimited potential to execute. • Omnipresence is the property of being present anywhere and everywhere, unlimitedly. How that “unlimited” is defined and is structuralized, in both of the cases, is a matter of review. Ben Thompson proposes that the rise of computers made humans omnipotent (Computers can do anything), the rise of the internet made humans omniscient (Computers know everything) and the rise of mobile computers – most particularly smart phones – made humans omnipresent (Computers are everywhere) (Thompson, 2014). The undesirable aspects of omnipresence can be summed up by a simple hypothetical example that may not be hypothetical anymore: imagine a network of spies that are constantly measuring certain aspects of your existence, like your health, your emotions, what you are doing, and more. This information is then be sold to someone that may find value from it - like an
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