With India and China betting big on electric cars through legislation drivers, the internal combustion engine based fuel economy will go for a massive overhaul over the next decade. Energy storage, material science, rebooting the infrastructure for electric cars along with automated mobility (a liberal dollop of Extended Intelligence in the words of Joichi Ito) will make the ecosystem game for transformation. Digital makes its way into transportation through automated vehicles.

The petroeconomies from Moscow to Caracas to Ras Khobar reeling under lower oil prices, will have two main consumers of oil, realigning under the climate change umbrella. But, electric energy from which sources? What will be the life cycle costs per unit of LCOE?

These questions have to be addressed. There is no modern civilisation sans energy.

The era of the digital eschews a hollow politics of symbolisms, rhetoric, and of political correctness. All the barrage of likes, shares and comments are click bait activism. Fill in a change.org protest and share, not quite realising that we have successfully registered purse on the surveillance roster. These feel good measures extend to crowdsourcing projects. Some are phenomenally successful, as myself have done a fantastic crowdsourcing initiative in Singapore. The sad reality is, the funds end and people move on to the next flavour of the season.

Real initiatives need real work on the ground; tough, brutal and thankless work in building real skills over years; where it is a digital archive or an activism platform, it requires business skills: fundraising, operations, outreach with the real project activity. There is a reason why successful business people are respected.

All the critique and most of it noise; is lost in the morass that is quarterly capitalism. No incentives cause no action, on Climate Charge and other vexed issues. Disaster Capitalism is all is well. All the trillions of words on equity, gender, conscious capitalism and reform is meaningless without any focus on the long term, where inter generational equity is business and profit making. Having worked in think tanks, university and corporate consulting: all elegant theory is well noise without creating incentive structures for political power elites to bring about transformation. Till then, Apple launches will dominate the news feeds, while genocide in an ASEAN country continues without any real resistance. Rwanda happens in 2017.