Sci-tech-human power complex- Reshaping the

world

National Institute of Management Karachi (19th MCMC]

|Ghulam Murtaza Khuhro

07/04/2015|

Sci-tech and human power complex

Human civilization has entered into its third and hitherto highest phase.

Human being is going to live in a much different world i.e. better world by 2025-2030 

First Phase

From the very beginning till advent of Industrial Revolution

When principle power of human being was his ‘Muscle Power’. Stronger the person, the more useful he was for hunting, for agriculture, for any manufacturing, for transport, for personal protection and for war etc.

I call this muscle power: an ‘Animal Power’. 

Second Phase

Commenced with Industrial Revolution; when animate power of human being was augmented by many thousand and million times more powerful inanimate power of machines.

Steam Engine followed by Electricity and then internal combustion engine formed the epicenter of that power. 

Second Phase (Contd.)

Second Phase is subdivided into four distinct phases.

1770s’ -1880s’

1890s’ – 1940s’

1950s’ -1980s’

1990s’ -2003-04

2005 Onwards

1770s’-1880s’1770s’-1880s’ Steam Engines (1776)

Steamships (Crossed English Channel-1822)

Iron and Steel

Railways (1825-29)

Telegraph (1844), Transatlantic Cable

(1858)

Telephone

( Source- Global Shift- Peter Dicken 6th Edition (Kondratiev cycle)

and Technology-A World history- Daniel R.Headrick – OUP )

1890s’ – 1940s’ Electricity

Electrical Engineering-Machinery

Internal Combustion Engine-(karl benz)

Automobile (Ford)

Aircraft( Wright Brothers)

Tractor-Thrasher

Heavy Engineering/armaments

Steel Ships

Camera/Video Camera

Television

Heavy Chemicals- PETROCHEMICALS

( Source- Global Shift- Peter Dicken 6th Edition

(Kondratiev cycle) and Technology-A World history- Daniel

R.Headrick – OUP )

1950s’ -1980s’1950s’ -1980s’ Early computer with vacuum tube

Containerized ocean shipping

Transistor

Radio

Computer –univac-ibm 701

Wide bodied Jet

Arpanet (1968)

Integrated Circuit/Microchip

Personal Computer-Spread Sheet

Dish Antenna, Fax-Machine, Pager

( Source- Global Shift- Peter Dicken 6th Edition (Kondratiev cycle) and

Technology-A World history- Daniel R.Headrick – OUP )

1990s’-2003-041990s’-2003-04 Computers (Notebooks, Laptop, Printers,

Webcams)

Internet

Software (Programming Languages)

Search Engines (Yahoo-1994, Google-

1998)

Mobile Phone

Optical Fibers

ICT

Robotics

• ( Source- Global Shift- Peter Dicken 6th Edition

(Kondratiev cycle) and Technology-A World history- Daniel R.Headrick

– OUP )

Globalization Of KRID

World started changing fast. Accessibility of information and knowledge increased

Knowledge, Research, Innovation And Development (KRID) crossed the borders.

Outsourcing and offshoring picked up. Outsourcing mainly involved software,

accountancy, medical transcripts, call centers and components of products.

This was the period when developing countries started on new trajectory of

development and developed countries felt the impact of it.

Developing countries started using raw material to manufacture finished products.

2005 -Onwards2005 -Onwards

3D Printing

Mooc

Nano-technology

Artificial Intelligence

Drones

• ( Source- Global Shift- Peter Dicken 6th Edition (Kondratiev cycle) and

Technology-A World history- Daniel R.Headrick – OUP )

Dsl

WIFI, Wimax

Social media. (Facebook,

Twitter, Linkedin,

Whatsapp, Viber, Skype,

etc)

Tablet Computers (Ipad

etc)

Smart Gadgets(Smart

T.V, Smart Phones)

3G and 4G LTE Internet

Cloud Computing

Sensors

VR Devices

Phone UsagePhone Usage

Internet UsageInternet Usage

Sci-tech-human power complex

After 2000 and particularly since mid of the 1st decade of 21st century;

human civilization successfully entered into its new and highest phase. 

We are already living into a hyper-connected world and going to live in

virtual world

Sci-tech-human power complex-II

Change in business paradigm of MNC’s/TNC’S

Sci-tech-human power complex-III

Sci-tech has elevated itself from its previous role of ‘enabler’ to its

new additional role of ‘determinant’.

Sci-tech has already started determining the direction of your choices

and policies.

Sci-tech-human power complex-IV

Now Sci-tech is empowering human being and human being in return is expanding its

horizon and deepening it further. They are co-evolving and complementing each

other. Besides, human mind has emerged as a new economic factor.

Sci-tech And Human Power (Brain Power) is merging together to become a single

objective force.

And, this force is re-shaping the world economy, politics, culture and policies.

This is an objective phenomenon, hence is unstoppable.

Sci-tech-human power complex-V

If around 100 Tech Savvy persons can usher in industrial revolution; what thousands of corporations and millions of individuals equipped with scientific knowledge and tools of technology could do?

In a decade or so, you will find billions of marginalized people joining mainstream of tangible and intangible production process. Imagine then what will happen .

Just imagine what would happen when there would be 50 Billion connected devices by 2020 (Source: @BofA_News and World Economic Forum) and there would be Internet Of Everything.

Sci-tech-human power complex-VI

A new horizon of empowerment of Human Mind has started to emerge.

Smart Phones, Ubiquitous Internet and new sources of power including Solar to energize new gadgets.

Accessibility to all is the new phrase.

Sci-tech-human power complex-VII

Marginalized countries and people will no more remain peripheral

and poor; and the gap between developed and developing countries

will increasingly get narrower.

Hence, the future of people all around the world is being and shall be

determined by the “sci-tech - human power complex”

Think about the following two slides, Rise of Rwanda, Ethiopia,

Vietnam and above all China.

FROM 13 May, 2000 to Dec 3rd 2011  to….

From 13 may,2000 to march 2013

Role of China Modern China is also direct product of KRID and Sci-Tech-Human

Power Complex.

China by now is ranked #1 economy of the world in purchasing power parity terms.

China has around four trillion dollars of foreign currency and is desperate to invest it abroad.

Creation of BRICS Bank with 50 billion USD, launching of AIIB with 100 billion USD , and one Belt and one Road project with 170 billion USD are new initiatives of China to turn around the economies of developing countries.

So, Sci-Tech-Human Power Complex on one hand and China on the other hand are bound to gear up the exponential growth and development.

I assure you, you are going to live in a totally different world by 2025-2030 and signs of such revolution will be clearer even by 2020.

THANKYOU