Author, lawyer, and cyber security expert
Arun Mohan Sukumar is a PhD candidate at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the author of Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India, published in November 2019 by Penguin Random House. Arun is a lawyer by training, and graduated from NALSAR, Hyderabad. He headed the Technology Initiative of the Observer Research Foundation, India's biggest think-tank, between 2015 and 2019. Arun was a member of the multi-stakeholder group set up by India's National Security Advisor in 2017 on 'cyber norms', or rules of conduct for states and businesses in cyberspace. He has been a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on the Digital Economy and Society (2016-2019).
In this extract from the book 'Midnight's Machines', Arun Mohan Sukumar asks the question, was it ambition or naïveté, or both, that nudged scientists towards unviable projects like the solar cooker?
Arun Mohan Sukumar
Author, lawyer, and cyber security expert
