Where does a common man come face to face with this so called “technology”?  Innovation that we have seen so far in India is a result of competition among bigwigs in different industries.

You see innovation in cars because one car company wants to outsell the other or innovation in mobile industry because one mobile company wants to have a bigger user base than the other. Innovation and advancement in good no matter how it happens, but it should also happen based on common man’s need and not only based on the competition.

So how does population (Population: 1,129,866,154 (July 2007 est.)) beat innovation and technology in countries like ours? 100 applicants for one job bring the value of the job down triggering exploitation of Labor resulting in low pays and long hours. I am certainly not talking about the tech industry in India, I am talking about sectors other than tech industry such as retail, etc..

We haven’t seen innovation in the way a kirana/banya shop works or how a gas station functions because of the availability of cheap labour. The cost of automation is higher than the cost of labour but the advantages and benefits of automation in the long run are being ignored.

Does this mean that these sectors will never see innovation? No, it means that the innovation will be slow but eventually they will “have to” innovate as most of the people from poor class and lower middle class is moving to job in tech industry or call centers, this does not leave them with any option.

What do you think?