(This article was originally published in Entelechy, edition 32, Jan 2012. It is being published here in full with some annotations.) It has continued to surprise me over the last 3.5 years how few information technology students actually bother to use the innovations of information technology to improve their productivity in any manner. More importantly, they are usually unaware of the products themselves. Recently the issue was brought to the fore when Skish Champi pointed out that Zimbra Collaboration Suite had great calendar integration (and I agree), and we as a college are still struggling around with sending meeting emails and reminders.

This article was first published in Entelechy (Issue 29, September 2011), the in-house DA-IICT magazine. “Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” -- Max Frisch DA-IICT is one of the few colleges in India to make humanities courses mandatory for students. It is sad then that most students treat it as a course to pass, and not as a way to gain insight into the world they’ll spend the rest of their lives in.