This is my answer to the following question for IE business school application: How do you imagine social interaction within 10 years, taking into consideration the impact of technology on human relations? By Maya Mounayar

1. How do you imagine social interaction
within 10 years, taking into consideration
the impact of technology on human
relations?
By Maya Mounayar

2. In ten years, will technology enrich social interactions or dehumanize
them?
Will technology
enrich human interactions? Or will it dehumanize them?
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3. Technology will foster richer human relationships through...
1
Breaking
barriers
• Geographically: enabling sensory interactions to bridge geographical
gaps
• Chronologically: allowing contact with people between different
chronological times
2
Maximizing
socialization
time
• Increasing efficiency in daily tasks to free up time for socializing and
entertainment
• Optimizing assets' utilization rates while benefiting from new encounters
3
Increasing
selectivity in
relationships
• Ratings and reviews will serve as a metric to select potential "partners"
in many fields such as choosing a nanny or a plumber
• Selecting potential partners based on relevant genetic information in
order to avoid high risk of bearing children with hereditary diseases

4. Technology will foster richer human relationships through breaking
barriers
1
Breaking
barriers
• Geographically: enabling sensory interactions to bridge geographical
gaps
• Chronologically: allowing contact with people between different
chronological times
Haptic: "HapToClone" technology
integrated into skype calls in order
to make calls sensory
Hologram concerts performed
deceased singers such as Michael
Jackson

5. 2
Maximizing
socialization
time
• Increasing efficiency in daily tasks to free up time for socializing and
entertainment
• Optimizing assets' utilization rates while benefiting from new encounters
Technology will foster richer human relationships through maximizing
socialization time
Robotic technology used for
household chores
Sharing economy platforms such as
blabla car and airbnb

6. 3
Increasing
selectivity in
relationships
• Ratings and reviews will serve as a metric to select potential "partners"
in many fields such as choosing a nanny or a plumber
• Selecting potential partners based on relevant genetic information in
order to avoid high risk of bearing children with hereditary diseases
Technology will foster richer human relationships through increasing
selectivity
Ratings and use of artificial
intelligence will enable selection of
the most relevant offerings
Enhanced genetic sequence
analysis through high performance
computing

7. Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions
through...
2
Decreasing
dependence on
human relations
• Robots becoming more emotional and progressively replacing the need
for human interactions
1
Correlation of
psychological
disorders with
social media
• Social media usually displays only positive aspects of a person's life
which leads to social comparisons, linked to anxiety and depression1
3
Increasing
blurriness of
limit between
human and
machine
• Robots' increased similarity to humans could devalue the "humanity" of
people and eventually cause confusion and heated debates
1. Source: USA today – study conducted by Intel Labs in 2013 based on 12 000 adults

8. Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions
through correlation of psychological orders with social media
1
Correlation of
psychological
disorders with
social media
• Social media usually displays only positive aspects of a person's life
which leads to social comparisons, linked to anxiety and depression1
1. Source: USA today – study conducted by Intel Labs in 2013 based on 12 000 adults
Enhanced genetic sequence analysis
through high performance computing

9. Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions
through decreasing dependence on human relations
2
Decreasing
dependence on
human relations
• Robots becoming more emotional and progressively replacing the need
for human interactions
Pepper, an emotional robot made in Japan, interacts with family members,
proposes games to play, and takes pictures of your kids in your absence

10. 3
Increasing
blurriness of
limit between
human and
machine
• Robots' increased similarity to humans could devalue the "humanity" of
people and eventually cause confusion and heated debates
Technology could help reach the deterioration of social interactions
through increasing blurriness of limit between human and machine
Potential human-robot romantic
relationships

11. Technology will considerably impact social interactions but it's not
or , it's up to us to shape its effects
• New technology will undoubtedly
have an impact on social interactions
in 10 years
• This impact could be positive or
negative
• The importance is in being critical of
the new technology in question
before adopting it or abandoning it
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In conclusion, we should shape the way we use technology and not let
technology shape us as human beings