Unravelling what awaits us in 2022

As the industrial era wanes, the network era looms

I woke up one day this week, the eve of the new year, with a nightmare: A vision of Bombay’s cluster of high-rise buildings at that centre of India’s financial heart, the Bandra Kurla Complex, in an abandoned and decrepit state, resembling what happened in front of my eyes to Parel’s booming textile mills in the 1970s. My wakeup and jump from bed were so abrupt that my little dog who sleeps next to me jumped up, whining in alarm.

I pinched myself to awake fully. Was this nightmare a sign of what doctors call an REM (rapid eye movement) disorder,