Mukesh Ambani: 'Politics Is Not My Strength'

As the world watches India’s meteoric rise as a global business leader, the country’s top industrialist eyes what’s on the horizon: the unstoppable march of disruptive technology that can transform life, business and the global economy in ways we never imagined before.

- Mukesh Ambani

Technology has driven human civilisation for thousands of years. What is technology? It is the tool and techniques humans invent using scientific knowledge to do better things. Technology enables productivity and higher value creation and master economic growth, all of which lead to prosperity and empowerment for society as a whole. Each technological revolution rewrites the rules of the game. It creates the opportunities for the early adopters to leap into positions of global leadership, power and influence. The world has seen a number of technological revolutions, but through it all India remained on the fringes. Particularly in infrastructure and manufacturing, we lost out on the multiple advancement opportunities. Today, the world is at the beginning of another industrial revolution—the convergence of the physical, digital and biological sciences that will enable humanity to reimagine, reinvent and re-engineer all aspects of life. Mobile internet, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, robotics, nano-technology and genomics are the foundational technologies of this revolution. Billions of people and sensors generate a tsunami of real-time data that can be processed by powerful algorithms and software in the cloud to generate magical user experiences, solve critical problems of society and realise new avenues of value creation. In the next 20 years, human civilisation will use exponential technologies to collectively achieve more than what we have achieved in the last 300 years. We are at the dawn of a new era of humanity and this is the opportunity India must seize.

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