The youthful Indian engineers took their seats, a bit nervously, in a makeshift conference room inside a cavernous former car-battery warehouse in Bangalore. Arrayed in front of them were several much older men and women, many of them gray-haired luminaries of India’s robust space program. The first Asian space agency to…

The digital economy has transformed the way we communicate with each other ; the way we consume information, products, and services; the way we entertain ourselves. It’s revolutionized seemingly non-digital industries — think of how different financial services, for instance, are today from what they were two decades ago —…