âBhaktsâ or âLiberalsâ â friendship changed in Modiâs India. Tech will make it worse for GenZ In âIndia 2030â, Sandipan Deb, as part of the volume of 20 essays, predicts how ideology and technology will widen political polarisation over the next decade. Sandipan Deb 16 January, 2021 11:31 am IST Text Size: A+ The ideological divide between friends that began in 2014 will widen in the 2020s, as India gets more polarized and relationships more political. Technology will accentuate this process and offer us digital alternatives in the decade ahead that we havenât encountered so far, replacing human interactions with artificial intelligence and robots. Already, the word âfriendâ has lost characteristics such as honesty, trust and vulnerability. The next ten years will peel off its other human features. Our friendships will be trapped in echo chambers, they will be more fragile, with fewer human interactions, leading to lower social skills. The 2020s will be the turning point, when the young of today will be more comfortable and have more friendships in cyberspace than in meatspace.