This document summarizes the development of communication technologies throughout history and their impact on civilizations and societies. It traces the progression from spoken language 100,000 years ago, to written language with papyrus in 2560 BC, the printing press in the 14th-15th century, broadcasting in the 1910s, and the internet in the 1990s. Each new technology advanced communication and fueled maturity of civilizations. The document then discusses hopes and fears around modern technologies like smartphones, social media, 3D printing, and artificial intelligence, and their potential impacts on business, government, jobs, privacy, and more. It emphasizes both the opportunities these technologies provide as well as concerns about controlling access to data and changing labor markets.

1. Hopes and Fears
Srijnan Sanyal
Leadership Conclave- 2015. IIM-K
Some pictures, charts and view points used from The Economist and MIT Technology Review

2. 100,000 BC
• Discovery of spoken language
• Beginning of flow of ideas
• Establishment of community
• Work collaboration

3. Papyrus 2560 BC
• Discovery of written language
• Egyptian Civilization
• Idea storing and archive
• Mega Monarchies

4. Printing Press
14th-15th Century
• Renaissance
• Industrial revolution
• Discovery of the new world
• One to Many Communication
• Discovery of assembly line

5. 1910s
Broadcasting
• Worldwide systems
• One to many but instant
• Large Corporations
• World Wars

6. Internet 1990s
• One World dream

7. The flow of Ideas and Civilization
Papyrus
2560 BC
Printing Press
14th-15th Century
1910s
Broadcasting
100,000 BC
MaturityofCivilizations
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
Internet
1990s
• 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
MaturityofCivilizations

8. 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

9. Social Networking is being used to promote
microfinance among poor Indian communities in
villages.

10. Adolescent school children in the US are making friends
and selling marijuana by using SN too

11. Smart Phone has changed the world since January
2007, when iPhone was launched.

12. • 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

13. 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 back
Fears
• 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

14. ELECTRICITY was once generated where it was used; now it comes
from the grid

15. Cloud Industry Platforms are triggering quality benchmarks of the
integrated world.
Financial Services
Citizen Services
Global Governance

16. Data Driven Cities: We can create better cities if we know how
the people live in it behave

17. Fears
• Fear over privacy. Commercial organization may
intrude through targeted marketing
• Government may gain unhealthy control over
citizen in the name of national security

18. Prints three dimensional objects

19. Prints from Digital Data

20. Old-school engineers work with lathes,
drills, stamping presses and moulding
machines bashing, bending and cutting
materials

21. 3D printers build things by depositing
material, layer by layer. This is additive
manufacturing.

22. Late 18th century Britain with
mechanised textile industry- the
machine manufacturing.
Early 20th Century America, Assembly
Line to trigger mass production

23. These amazing machines may be able to make
almost anything, anywhere—from garage to a
remote village.

24. The geography of supply chains will change.

25. A revolution, a disruptive one
$499
$33
manufacturing
labour
$8
Offshore
assembly

26. 3D printers are growing out of the box

27. A software that can modify itself, and learn as it goes along.

28. Faces of Education, Healthcare and Judiciary are going to
change

29. Clever machines with access
to more data. Danger of
capital substituting the labour
Changing nature of future jobs.
The Emotive Occupations

30. Impact on the HR organizations.
1. App Designer
2. App Developer
3. Data Scientists
4. Social Media Manager
5. Digital Marketing Specialist
6. SEO Specialist
7. Chief Digital Officer
8. Blogger
9. Admission Consultant
10. Cloud Service Specialist
10 hot Jobs that simply didn’t exist
10 years back

31. • 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

32. 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

33. The human spirit must prevail over technology
Albert Einstein