This article is part of an Executive special report on entrepreneurship. Read more stories as they’re published here, or pick up November’s issue at newsstands in Lebanon. We live in an age where technological discoveries, innovation and entrepreneurs finding uses for these discoveries are changing the way we do things, the way we understand the world and how we are connected to it. In many ways the changes brought on by information and communication technologies (ICT), like the groundbreaking inventions of the past that brought on the Industrial Revolution, have had highly positive consequences. Tech has brought down a lot of barriers — from inexpensive global communications to starting a business with minimum upfront costs. It has created high value jobs that offer higher pay to an increasingly specialized segment of the population. It has automated many repetitive manual processes, squashed out inefficiencies and provided advancements in many fields.
