Designers of Sri Lanka’s Future: Episode 3 

Technology to ease lives

Monday, 28 May 2018 

Channa de Silva, CEO of LankaClear, Sri Lanka’s official clearing and payment services provider, declares convincingly: “I firmly believe that technology should be for improving people’s convenience.”

Channa is correct. For millennia, mankind has invented new technology to ease its life. Oxford-trained historian Noah Yuval Harari, documenting the history of mankind in a book titled ‘Sapiens’, has provided proof of this. He has noted that from the time the hunter-gatherer Homo sapiens got into agriculture some 10,000 years ago, their worldly progress was always marked by the invention of new technologies that superseded the old ones.

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