Technology Innovation

Will technology serve humanity or quietly replace it?
From the Industrial Revolution to artificial intelligence, every major technological breakthrough has transformed lives while reshaping power, work, and dignity. Technological Innovation: Sword or Plough reveals why innovation is never neutral and why its outcomes depend on the choices societies make.
Tracing history from early industrial machines to modern software, automation, and AI, the book shows how technology can democratize comfort even as it displaces livelihoods. It explores the deeper forces behind innovation like trade, policy, culture, and ethics through stories that range from mass production and chemical revolutions to India's software rise during the Y2K moment. It also covers the unexpected influence of Indian spiritual thought on modern digital design.
As automation pushes us toward an Automation Paradox, where flawless. repetition becomes cheap and abundant, the book offers a hopeful vision: a coming Craftsmanship Revolution, where human judgment, creativity, and moral responsibility regain value.
Written for students, professionals, and policy makers, this book asks a defining question of our time.
Will technology become a sword that divides society or a plough that cultivates shared prosperity?
Every technology creates power. Wisdom decides whether it becomes a sword or a plough.