Artificial Intelligence is changing the world at a rapid pace. Yet one question continues to shape many discussions: as technology becomes more powerful, how can people grow with it ?
Author and technology leader Prashant Gupta (PG) believes the answer begins with understanding time and the conscious choices people make throughout their lives. These ideas form the heart of his latest book, The Intelligence of Time, the final volume in his Consciousness Trilogy.
Why Success in Technology Was Only the Beginning
For more than 25 years, PG worked at the front of major technology advances. His work covered mobile devices, cloud computing, and Artificial Intelligence. He contributed to Motorola Razr and Microsoft Azure, shaped Microsoft Accelerator for Startups, and later pioneered AI networks in healthcare, education, agriculture shaping public policy.
While individual empowerment and social equity shaped his professional life, another question slowly became more important to him. How can people use augmented intelligence with greater wisdom ?
The Making of the Consciousness Trilogy
That question led him to spend five years studying cosmology, philosophy, and Indian knowledge systems. During this period, he completed a 108-site interfaith pilgrimage and spent time in solitude in the quiet surroundings of the American wilderness. These experiences became the foundation of his three books.
The trilogy begins with The Flow of My Life, which reflects on family, values, and the experiences that shape a person’s life. The second book, The Awakenings by the Pond, focuses on self-awareness and personal responsibility. The final book, The Intelligence of Time, brings these ideas together by looking at time as more than a way to measure days and years. It presents time as something that shapes human decisions, personal growth, and the direction of society.
How Cosmology and Indian Thought Come Together
PG also brings together modern science and ancient Indian thought. Drawing from cosmology and the study of Jyotisha, he examines how people can better understand their place in the larger order of life. His goal is not to compare science with philosophy but to show how both can help people think more deeply about responsibility, family, and the choices they make every day.
Making Artificial Intelligence Work for People
His work has earned recognition for advancing technological innovation in service of human well-being. His work has also reached beyond the technology industry. Over more than a decade, he helped develop AI networks that improved school enrolment, prevented avoidable blindness, and strengthened climate-resilient agriculture. These initiatives were presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, informed India’s National AI Policy, and led to the Global South’s first AI-based Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score (AICVD), developed in partnership with Apollo Hospitals and Maastricht – saving lives and was later cited by the United Nations. These experiences reinforced his conviction that technology delivers its greatest impact when it is guided by human values and deployed with care, responsibility, and a commitment to the public good.
Recognized among India’s Top 50 Influential Authors of 2023, PG now spends much of his time writing and mentoring young people in India and the United States. Through his books, he hopes readers will think beyond career success and consider how knowledge, character, and thoughtful action shape a meaningful life. He calls this vision Conscious Computing—guiding both human intellect and agentic AI toward a future of harmony, agency, meaning, and peaceful coexistence.
Why the Future Needs More Than Technology
With The Intelligence of Time, Prashant Gupta invites readers to reflect on questions that remain important in every generation. How do people grow through time? How do their choices shape the future? And how can greater awareness help build a better world?
By bringing together science, philosophy, and personal reflection, he hopes to encourage a thoughtful conversation about human growth in an age shaped by Artificial Intelligence.
