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We are living in a rapidly developing high tech World

We are living in a rapidly developing high tech world where technology is a yardstick for a country's social or economic development Countries that have invested sufficiently in promoting emerging technologies over the past decade are the ones that have developed successfully If we may look at the US western countries even in Asia like China Malaysia Japan and India are booming in the technology industry In comparison Pakistan lags development due to being underdeveloped in the technology sector because of political and democratic interests We have a polarized democracy inefficient governance system overall poor human development conditions less educational opportunities and state does not prioritize to scale up new technologies due to which it has been hindered to move forward which in turn has not allowed the society to exploit the potential in the society and move towards the path of prosperity However it is a common perception that if more machines replace human beings at work then the jobs would be destroyed and what will people do But in actual it is not the case Technology creates new jobs in the industries such as IT development hardware manufacturing app creation IT systems management and etc One of the study by MacKinsey s in 2011 found that internet destroyed 500 000 jobs in France but on the other hand it also created 1 2ml new job opportunities Therefore net impact of emerging technologies on employment is strongly positive In addition improved technology will strengthen our social economic and human capital at a large scale If we may turn the pages of history come to know that those days have been left away when people used to say that the earth exists on water Those days have been gone when it used to take years to reach Saudi Arabia 



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