techlogy, industry, society- hopes and fears
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Hopes and Fears
Srijnan SanyalLeadership Conclave- 2015. IIM-K
Some pictures, charts and view points used from The Economist and MIT Technology Review
100,000 BC
• Discovery of spoken language• Beginning of flow of ideas• Establishment of community• Work collaboration
Papyrus 2560 BC
• Discovery of written language• Egyptian Civilization• Idea storing and archive• Mega Monarchies
Printing Press14th-15th Century
• Renaissance• Industrial revolution• Discovery of the new world• One to Many Communication• Discovery of assembly line
The flow of Ideas and Civilization
Papyrus2560 BC
Printing Press14th-15th Century
1910sBroadcasting
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A d v a n c e m e n t o f C o m m u n i c a t i o n T e c h n o l o g y
Internet1990s
• Discovery of spoken language
• Beginning of flow of ideas
• Establishment of community
• Work collaboration
• Discovery of written language
• Egyptian Civilization
• Idea storing and archive
• Mega Monarchies
• Renaissance• Industrial
revolution• Discovery of the
new world• One to Many• Discovery of
assembly line
• Worldwide systems
• One to many but instant
• Large Corporations
• World Wars
• One World dream
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Reimagine the business & society
A new set of technologies have the potential to reshape our business, government and social institutions.
• Digital Transformation with SMAC technologies
• 3D printing
• Cognitive Computing
• Fastest selling gadget in history• Half of world’s adult population owns a
smart phone, by 2020, 80% will.• On an average one buries 2 hours a day
in smart phone• 80% users check smart phone within 15
minutes of getting up
Hopes• Personal data from ubiquitous mobile
instrument will build many solutions for a Smart Planet and Smarter Societies-Epidemics, Traffic, crime control, Healthcare, Environment
• Its building opinion and protest movements• Its remaking industries and economy. UBAR
and WhatsApp didn’t exist 5 years backFears• Fear over privacy. It may turn to be a
publisher of your most private and embarrassing moments
• Government may gain unhealthy control over citizen in the name of national security
Cloud Industry Platforms are triggering quality benchmarks of the integrated world.
Financial Services
Citizen Services
Global Governance
Fears• Fear over privacy. Commercial organization may
intrude through targeted marketing• Government may gain unhealthy control over
citizen in the name of national security
Old-school engineers work with lathes, drills, stamping presses and mouldingmachines bashing, bending and cutting materials
Late 18th century Britain with mechanised textile industry- the machine manufacturing.
Early 20th Century America, Assembly Line to trigger mass production
These amazing machines may be able to make almost anything, anywhere—from garage to a remote village.
Clever machines with access to more data. Danger of capital substituting the labour
Changing nature of future jobs. The Emotive Occupations
Impact on the HR organizations.
1. App Designer2. App Developer3. Data Scientists4. Social Media Manager5. Digital Marketing Specialist6. SEO Specialist7. Chief Digital Officer8. Blogger9. Admission Consultant10. Cloud Service Specialist
10 hot Jobs that simply didn’t exist 10 years back
• World has gone through technological many a time and it didn’t collapse.
• Automation increases productivity and more income. More income creates more job
• Is this equation changing?• Stagnant real wage in developed world• Emergence of super rich: Owners of
capital have captured most of the world’s income in last 4 decades.
The Economic Impact
• Decentralization
• Re-skilling human resources
• Manage less with more
• Policy, etiquette and discipline for the new order
The dimensions of change
We’re in the midst of a jobs crisis, and rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence and other technologies may be one culprit. How can we get better at sharing the wealth that technology creates?
MIT Technology Review