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“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived”.

-          Helen Keller (Blind and deaf educator, 1880–1968)

My children often smile indulgently on our visits to the local library, not because they accept my love of reading (they are avid readers also), but because they find it amusing when I tell them that the library we frequent in Mumbai reminds me of the University department I studied at miles away…

Over the centuries, advances in science and technology have driven mankind to become what it is today. The wheel, the compass, the printing press, soap, the telephone, the light bulb, penicillin, electricity, the internet, … all of these inventions can be named in the same breath, given the manner in which they have transformed the way we live today. But there is much more to come! Here are (what I would like to think) possible future breakthroughs for the near and distant future that…