Sonali’s driver was clueless about which direction to take towards the airport. She used Google Maps, and the map’s voice facility and placed it on the phone stand for the driver. Within half an hour they were on the right track. From a space of anxiety, the sense of direction was restored with technology again to the rescue.

Quite literally, robotics companies Boston dynamics and Rocos have partnered to deploy a fleet of dog-like robots called “Spot” to herd sheep and conduct agricultural tasks in New Zealand.

FoondaMate, a WhatsApp chatbot allowed students in South Africa to access education materials without a fixed or stable internet connection. Students could download everything from paper to notes without paying for data since most mobile networks there do not charge for WhatsApp usage.

UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People has prototyped the world’s first accessible pregnancy test for those with impaired vision.

HeartFlow service, a cloud-based service approved by FDA enables clinicians to identify coronary artery disease based on CT images of the patient’s heart. It uses these images to create a fluid dynamic model of the blood running through the coronary blood vessels to identify abnormalities. Otherwise, the traditional invasive angiogram is required for doctors to decide when and how to intervene.

An enabler across industries and a gateway of access to education and knowledge anytime and anywhere, technology is also a superhero and an icon of our time, a time where the geography of cultures is not based on places and distances.