“In coming years you will see that your social net-working will get integrated with business networking with all the security elements built into to allow only your preferred business information flow to social networking”, said Dr. N.S.Kalsi, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home, Government of India and former M.D of Punjab Infotech Ltd. here while speaking on the occasion of ‘Dr. S.P.Singh Memorial Lecture’ on Emerging Trends in information technology organised by Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) at Bhartiya Vidhya Bhavan. 
Dr. Kalsi cautioned the young IT professional attending the session that one has to be very careful what you express on social networking sites since your views remain on the servers and you can be confronted with them in future. However, he said that advantages of modern day computing outweigh disadvantages. He said that advancement in computing is already showing significant impacts on the lives of common people and in businesses. For example, through advance analytical technologies we are able to forecast how the changes in banking rates and CSR etc. impact the inflation 
Dr. Kalsi further said that through CCTV, 3-D Data storage and simulating technologies Cyber Police Stations are being conceived in India to handle prevention of crimes such as placing of RDX in market places, malls, stations and other crowded places. Technologies are now being devised to ward off the destructive effect of hackers since the future warfare will be through technology and yet unknown viruses that can make a nation inoperative and immobile without spending much costs and loss of human beings. 
Other speakers on the occasion included, Dr. Gulshan Sharma, president of CMA, Brig. Saran S. Sahnay, chairman (IT Committee-CMA) and Dr. P.K.Vasudeva, past president of CMA
An excellent expose to the technologies to look for in 2010, though did not connect up with the topic pre-se.
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