The author maps wealth as a triangle: Manchester (factories and GDP), Palo Alto (silicon, data, and AI as extraction), New Delhi (knowledge tied to consciousness, ethics, and Indian darśana, citing Śaṅkara and Abhinavagupta). AI is called a planetary shock that still lacks meaning if it is only calculation.

A “Sulpasso Report” on moving from AI to GDKP (Gross Domestic Knowledge Product) is slated for late October in Bangalore. GDKP is offered as a quantitative replacement for GDP—value from producing, teaching, and applying knowledge in sectors chosen by ethical and cultural criteria—not an add-on index like Stiglitz–Sarkozy or a coming UN “beyond GDP” paper the author expects to fail.

India is named the first lab, with MoSPI, ICRIER, NITI Aayog, and named officials and researchers, plus Jeffrey Cole’s Center for Digital Future. The author says keeping GDP as the core measure feeds conflict and ecological harm; GDKP is presented as the alternative.

AI (Artifical Intelligence) is the tsunami that has upset the life of the planet. From trade, to work, to security, the whole planet is shaken by this incredible advancement of Knowledge that changes all the rules of the game, from the economy to military security. 

Winding along a conceptual triangle: Manchester, Palo Alto and New Delhi is a path that combines industrial materialism, technological abstraction and the metaphysical vision of knowledge.

The three stages of the journey

Palo Alto’s turning point: Dematerialization and its limit

Palo Alto takes a fundamental step: it frees itself from Manchester’s industrial obsession with heavy matter. It transforms coal and steel into silicon, data and software. It re-proposes knowledge as the primary engine of human development, apparently moving closer to Asia.

The functional trap: however it must be immediately noticed that Palo Alto’s knowledge risks being purely instrumental, oriented towards efficiency, value extraction, algorithm and monetization of life.

India’s veda. The loss of meaning of knowledge devoid of a theory of consciousness or an ethics of being. Which is the essential of Indian Knowledge. My personal favored writer of the Advaita Vedānta philosophy is Śaṅkarācārya (8th century CE), and his book Self-Knowledge (Ātma-Bodha or Ātma-Jñāna) the supreme core of his teaching. Śaṅkara asserts that liberation (Mokṣa) from the cycle of birth, death, and suffering (Saṃsāra) cannot be attained through rituals, good deeds, or intellectual learning alone, but only through the direct realization of the........

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