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0:00But what happened after World War II? A major event was the cold war which was basically like a war but not a war. You want to talk about it? >> Yeah. So powers ended, right? So >> more independent countries. >> More independent countries, right? So how did that happen? Right. So >> in World War II, one thing was clear, right? >> America

0:24>> rose >> rose, right? Stood out, right? So they they were able to bankroll the war, right? >> Yeah. It was like the right opportunity to like the right time. >> It was all about timing. Yeah. >> So Britain's era ended. >> Yeah. >> After World War II, right? Yes. They won they they were part of the allies that eventually won the war.

0:43>> But like at what cost? >> At what cost? Right. So Britain was bankrupted. >> Yeah. >> Right. Pretty much bankrupt. You know many people in India say that you know Gandhi gave us independence. Right. >> Gandhi helped uni unify the country. Right. I know there was did a very good job of keeping >> India country >> country together. Right. >> Right. But post World War II

1:05>> Britain colonization. >> Right. Britain colonization ended. 1945 World War II ended. India got independence in 47, right? So did many other countries like but the net effect is that >> I believe that after the first war of independence that happened at 18 >> it cost them money >> 57 right when the British East India Company was nationalized by the British government the queen

1:34right said you know what the country of Britain will now manage India this one company cannot manage India. So from 1857 onwards, Britain actually did not benefit from India in my opinion. Even if they benefited, that benefit ended in late 1800s like by 1880 1890, right? It took more resources for Britain to manage India than what they could extract from India. >> Yeah. Didn't give up India not because

2:11of goodwill, right? Not because they suddenly had a moral >> Yeah. >> uh conscious, right? Oh, I'm going to >> It's more of an economical reason. >> Correct. It was more of an economical reason why >> code that you said like for the Great Britain like there's >> sun never sets on the >> eventually sets now. >> Yeah, it sets now, right? World War II,

2:30I would say that put together America. America was number one even then 5 miles. But I I also think is that like all the major powers before those wars were mainly like colonized. So they were like not their own but like America like was their own land. They were like they have land cuz like they're not colonizing new countries. >> No, but World War II it's not like

2:55France was colonized, right? I'm talking about the existing powers. So you're talking about England, the French, Spain, Italy, >> right? >> Yeah. They got their power through colonizing and then because of the wars they have to give up those coloniz >> Europeans ruled the world for for >> probably for >> you know from from 1500 right from late Gangistan after post gang gang area

3:26right >> yeah from 1500s until 1900s so for about end of the day right it was like two European countries fighting elsewhere it. >> Yeah. I think it's just when time comes, people like alliances change cuz like we know about the 100 day war and those war like in Britain and French were always against each other but when it comes to World War II at some point they were

3:49like allies >> because of Germany, right? Because see Germany at that point >> never unified. >> There was not another threat, right? Like >> there was never a threat like Germany >> because it was the French. It was before that Spain. >> Spain actually at one point owned a lot more than what Britain did. You think about it. >> They discovered the Americas. I don't

4:12>> the whole south the South America. >> They just basically owned it. >> Yeah. And Spain also I think had the East Indies. >> Yeah. >> By the way, it's a very interesting thing, right? You know why Spain why Britain dominated Spain eventually? >> Wow. >> Because Spain was monarchy. Everything had to go through the king. The king had to fund an expedition,

4:34right? I'm going to fund an expedition to Argent, you know, the present day Argentina, right? Something, right? >> But Britain was very private capital, very capitalistic. Britain was very capitalistic, right? >> People can actually fund these. >> So, yeah, Britain was very democratized. >> Britain was like, you know, oh, a bunch of people put together would say, you know what, I'm going to fund the ship

4:54>> and let's Yeah, post World War II. So, you had >> What do you think about the Soviet Union, then? >> Correct. So post World War II, right, when Russia basically took over whatever Germany occupied >> plus whatever Germany had. >> Yeah. >> Like remember it started with Germany occupying Poland >> and then they took over. >> Then Russia basically went through took

5:15half of Germany. They call it East Germany. East Germany remained with Soviet Union and everything from East Germany onwards to >> the mainland of Russia >> through the mainland of Russia became the Soviet Union. Right. It it became a it became a bipolar world with basically America and Soviet Union and small countries like Britain and France were like oh no I have to ally with America

5:41because if the Soviet Union decides to >> attack us >> attack we won't stand a chance. >> Yeah. So like after this guy called Hitler and Nazis do all this attacking and they're finally gone, there is another thing and this thing called Soviet Unions. Now going to attack it anytime soon and we have to watch out again. >> So there was like no peace time in

6:05Europe at all. >> And also there were two competing uh point of views of the world, right? >> Yeah. >> You had the capitalist point of view >> of America >> of America, Britain, France, right? and democracy and you had the communist point of view, right? >> Soviet Union, China. >> Yeah. And so and so and the communists. Imagine when Soviet when 1945 ended

6:29communism for the very first time, it was tried in many different countries, right? It s by the way communist communism KL Marx is from Germany. You know that? >> I don't know. >> Yeah. There's a book called The Communist. I think it's the communist manifesto. >> I think how many how many ideas came from Germany? Einstein came from Germany. KL Mars came from Germany.

6:52Right. >> It's it's like Germany lost its own thing and it's probably all because of Hitler now waiting 2 years. >> Yes. But Hitler also hated communism. >> So the fact that uh Russia became communist in 19 early 1900s, right? >> The Nazis >> always hated the communists. >> Yeah. They were like the second target after Jews basically. >> Yes, they were the second target of the

7:17Jews, right? That hatred is why Hitler decided to attack the >> Russia. >> Attack Russia, right? But there were two things, right? In 1945, if you look at it, it was basically communists and capitalists, right? >> Yeah. >> So, the Soviet Union was newly formed. They were >> strong. To be real, To be real, you know what? If anybody blunted Hitler, Hitler's war machine for the most part

7:44it was Russia, Soviet Union and there was NATO. So NATO is is basically what happened is they formed two packs, right? >> Yeah. >> The Soviets formed what is called as Warsaw. >> Yeah. >> And uh the western countries along with the US formed what is called as NATO. >> They formed these packs and they said attack on one nation means attack on

8:03>> all nations. >> All nations. Right. That's just so if one thing like attacks on NATO that's just World War II in that case >> a lot of history. So now let's talk about like the early 2000s and 2010s like the digital age. >> Well before that right before that I think the '90s is also important because the '90s when the Soviet Union collapsed

8:28right? >> Yeah. >> So Soviet Union collapsed because of you know reasons where they they just tensions between >> no it is basically communism right it's like central command >> that that they couldn't do a good job of controlling the economy they never could grow the economy right so I don't know um you might not know right so most of the west Germany and east Germany are very

8:54good examples >> same Germany divided between capitalist Germany and and communist Germany >> Berlin right there was a Berlin all over 50s, 60s, '7s and ' 80s, right? There was so much of economic development on the western front, right? Like they had like multi, you know, many car companies that came about. >> Yeah, probably like many famous ones. >> Many famous I I can't remember those,

9:22but >> even now, right, the current day Mercedes, BMW or even, you know, Japan, Japan was part of NATO, right? America. So you had Sony, you had WMAN, right? There was so much of >> there was competition, right? With competition comes innovation. >> The communist were more like state controlled, right? State would decide go make a car. There was one car company or

9:45two car companies, right? That's it. >> So there was basically no freedom for the people. >> Correct. And because of that by ' 80s it became evident that a car produced in Soviet Union was probably 30 years behind the car that was produced in the west of countries. Oh, >> same thing in India, right? I don't know if you know there's a car company called

10:04Ambassador. Your your probably your parents will know Ambassador, right? >> Ambassador existed for like 40 years, 50 years, right? The same car. Nothing changed. They didn't even change the design of the car, right? >> While the western countries kept innovating, right? Kept innovating, kept in >> Mercedes before we had a new model in >> they had their cars were much more advanced because they were competing.

10:25>> There's more innovation in the world cuz like more countries are free. Correct. >> And then it was after the Soviet Union collapsed and it was more of fashion and then new technology came like radio waves and computers. What do you think was it called the digital age during like that time? >> See computers were there since the 1950s >> like the modern ones that we see.

10:50>> So like computers personal ones compared to like more >> so the PC era started with u I think before PC there was the Mac, right? Yeah. So Steve Jobs I think that was late '7s I think then America had computers in the 80s I think the PC era came about in the 80s right and in the '90s yes once India once

11:15Soviet Union collapsed right >> it proliferated right like if you ask any any person your dad's age right probably PCs became normal in India in early '90s late I think late '9s right '96 97 onwards like people started seeing it right like in schools in colleges and everything right >> so it's right kind of like how you guys are using now AI chat chat GP

11:41>> your chat GP was >> us trying to >> uh start up Windows right Windows 95 would show up right boom and >> hypothetical question based on how much we use internet today what would you think happened if internet disappeared for months. >> See, if the internet stops working, right, the economy will collapse because >> forget about us you consuming Netflix and YouTube, right? That's just enter

12:12entertainment. >> Yeah. >> Supply chain, banking, finance, nothing would work, right? Nothing would work. >> Stock market is speculation. Everything is speculation, right? >> Yeah. >> You want to sell at something that you think it is, I will buy at something that I think it is. Let's talk more about computers. >> Okay. >> Um, how do you think like they start the

12:34use of like personal computing like laptops like helped us in terms of connectivity and like creativity and just in general? How does how has it affected us? Cuz like we cuz based on my knowledge they used these big computers at the time but like the use of these like personal laptops. How do you think it has affected our daily lives? >> See the lab up up until the point of PC

13:01right everything was a large computer in the room. >> Yeah. >> Basically a mainframe right and and it was very limited to some big big in government entities or corporations that would employ these mainframes >> to run their operations. Right. >> PC actually bought computing to your home. M now uh PCs revolutionized all of that right PCs said you know you can you

13:29can it improve the productivity they talk now they talk AI is is going to improve your productivity right >> PCs improve the productivity by a factor of thousand maybe right >> airline booking railway booking banks right anything and everything right everything was now automated with your PC >> yeah And >> you talked about AI, right? How do you see like how does AI challenge like the

14:00traditional ideas of like creativity? Like cuz like I've seen a lot of people just use AI to do their work, but like how does that affect creativity and innovating skills? >> Well, the last year or two years, right, AI is the buzz word. Like everybody loves to talk about AI, right? >> Yeah. It was like the last 2 years when it just

14:22>> boom. >> Yeah. >> My personal experience with AI is that has it improved my productivity? Absolutely it has. Right. >> Yeah. That's >> right. >> Well, so it can be effective if you use use it the right way. But like >> correct. >> Can it take what jobs if AI got really advanced? What jobs would it take over? Maybe >> this is open secret, right? You talk to

14:46anybody, right? Elon Mus Sundai or Satinad right you talk to any one of them right they're all saying that AI is going to dramatically transform mankind like how industrialization did not even with the advent of computers like how industrialization happened in the 18th century in in Europe right in 17 to a whole >> like steam engines right that is what they're predicting right So

15:18I'm not I have a Tesla 2 years ago 3 years ago the full self-driving was just a novelty right I came to your home >> in full self-driving it grew from point to point from my house to your house it grew on its own and it did not make any mistakes has improved so much it has improved by a fact it wasn't even half as good one

15:43year ago >> I would say even 6 months ago. >> How do they make those like adjustments without really taking your car back and like repairing it like the old days? >> No, no, no. It's basically it has cameras, right? The cameras are are taking in all of the video data, feeding it to a central computer to a central computer. The central computer has a

16:02neural net >> that's basically studying all of the data, >> learn about podcasting, learn about talking >> just like you. So that's what's going to is happening with AI, right? It's gotten to a point where >> people are feeling it. so much that >> that the AI is able to learn. >> Yeah, >> these AI algorithms are able to learn every day. I don't know how far it's

16:24true, right? The prediction is that in the next couple of years, it's going to become some of these companies, right? They're all fighting, right? We have the gen Genai, but it's going to become it's going to reach some kind of consciousness, right? meaning it's going to uh become like a terminator, right? Where where it's going to like become as smart as a human

16:49>> 2 years from now. >> In four or 5 years from now, Elon Musk is saying that in four or five years from now, it's got that AI is going to be smarter than all the human beings in the world combined. Silicon AI, biological AI, right? The difference between silicon AI and biological AI silicon silicon right which is artificial >> can scale much better.

17:15>> I've learned this fact that our human mind um don't quote me on this but like we know only about 20% I think about our brain and our brain can make 7 trillion operations per second compared to a normal Nvidia's GPU. Yeah. So like we know only so much about our brain. So like I think once we learn about our brain we can use it like our

17:43full potential >> and feel ourselves smarter. >> Yeah. Or maybe you know that we have to merge with silicon chips right like there is that what that um >> Elon Musk has that chip right brain >> put it in the brain and then we could control the screen. >> So maybe we figure out a way how to enhance our brain right? >> Yeah. Use it as a tool.

18:02>> Yeah. I see a future where we have to merge. If we don't merge, they're just going to kill us. >> Yeah. >> Cameron predicted that that thing Terminator 2 came out in 90 in the early '90s, right? And he it's like I think he says something's going to happen in 2020s or something like this. So exact. You should watch that movie.

18:23It's an amazing movie. >> I guess that's smart. Um so let's wrap this up a bit. How do you see your working industry change in 5 years or so? In the next 5 years or so? >> See, it is going to be a capital problem, right? Things, right? AI things are very expensive. >> Yeah. >> Right. So I think right now we are at a

18:52stage where we're kind of struggling to figure out what is the return of uh what is the return of investment. >> Yeah. >> Right. So the people that are consuming the services that these hyperscalers are giving us right this Google Microsoft >> OpenAI all of these people right so what they're giving us right we are we are customers right okay how is it actually

19:21leading to a productivity gain everybody's saying it's going to give us huge productivity gain it is but it has >> compared to the amount of investments ments that we are making right it has it has to be substantial right if that pays out if it ends up being sub substantial then absolutely I feel uh it's going to dramatically transform our industry right I feel I feel if AI get very good

19:51right the IT service industry as we know it will not exist >> will not exist >> that makes sense because >> if an agent can do if an agent agent can handle a customer service call as well as a real human being, the agent will basically take over what the real human being is doing. Right. >> Yeah. >> And if the customer service agent is can

20:15has to talk to somebody on the sourcing side or somebody on the manufacturing side, there could be an agent on the manufacturing side or the sourcing side that can talk to the customer service agent. Right. >> Yeah. >> So, agentic AI, right? Agent to agent AI. Um yeah so what would some things that AI cannot take over like >> one thing I'll tell you right

20:40>> if if you if you're asking what as as a young kid is that what you're asking what should I focus on >> no like what industries are not going to AI cannot take over >> see many people say that you know oh your physical jobs is not going to be taken over by air right your plumbing job right >> or you know somebody who comes and does

20:58construction >> right that those jobs are not affected. But in reality, if you're working, >> you could just have massive AI machines do it. >> You can have robots do it, right? Eventually, right? >> All robots have to do is get some hand control or whatever, right? And they can do all of that, right? And also, here's the thing, right? If you are working in

21:19a high paying job, say you're a doctor. >> Yeah. >> Right. Would you want to become a plumber? >> No. >> No. Right. I mean that's that's you know there's nothing wrong with doing a plumbing job absolutely nothing wrong right >> but I wouldn't expect a surgeon to suddenly switch jobs to becoming a plumber right to survive >> right that's the problem

21:43so to your question right you're asking >> what industries >> what industries right see I think productivity will dramatically improve >> like what industries ries AI cannot take over >> all industries productivity is going to improve right like like if you were like say if if a doctor was able to look after 10 patients now using AI the doctor can look off can address 100

22:12patients the question is is there scarcity of medical services in the world yes there is right >> 7 billion 8 billion people are not getting the level of medical service >> as they need >> as they need right so there is a market for it right so the industries that are currently in place there is going to be a point where productivity will increase

22:38right across >> right some industries will disappear like IT services I feel is under real threat >> back in the day banks right there was the first >> so I think accounting is also going to be taken over pretty soon >> correct correct >> yeah cuz like accounting is just taking care of those numbers person count >> correct but there you will you will need

22:57definitely one >> so to handle it >> yeah you will need one person to manage right >> to use right so I kind of will give you a different answer not directly answer your question I would say that learn how to leverage more and more AI in your job that allows you to improve your productivity >> and once you can improve your

23:21productivity right you will still keep your job Yeah. So like basically using AI against your advantage so AI doesn't take over you. If I'm trying to like look if I'm trying to become a CEO or make any leadership roles, what do you think I should do? Uh first thing is um I would tell any young kid, right? Remember I told you like how I was a little bit pessimistic

23:46to begin with in my life. You should always be an optimist. See, you should have a very global perspective about about uh your life, right? Uh sometimes you become very insular, right? We operate from a theory of constraints. You know what that is? Theory of constraints. >> Yeah. >> So theory of constraints is you always say there is only a cake. I was feeding five people

24:14and now I have to feed 100 people. There's not going to be enough cake. You're operating from a theory of constraints, right? >> Versus you have to think about the fact that more people means you can create more jobs, means you can open up more kitchens, you can make more cakes. >> Yeah. So like think >> which means that everybody can eat more

24:37>> than what it was before and that's how the world has operated right till now. >> If you look at the world, I feel the world in 2026 is better than the world in 2000. The world in 2000 was better than the world in 1975. >> Yeah, it is always better. >> Man, the world in 1975 is like much better than the world in the 1800s. Did

24:57you know >> the world in 1800s be the better than the world in 1940s? >> H no, it was worse. >> See, we talking about World War II in 1900s, man. In 1800s, >> there was so much atrocities happening everywhere. There was slavery. It was rampant. You know the average life in the 1800s I think the average life of a man was like 30

25:19>> 30s or 40s. >> Yeah. >> Like me and your dad would be dead by now. If you were born 100 years ago, 150 years ago. >> Yeah. That that's the fact. >> That could have broke my It was kind of funny. >> No, but that's the >> that's the fact. >> That's the fact, right? >> So the world is getting much better,

25:37man. You have to operate. You have to be an optimist, right? And you have to surround yourself with good people. >> See, here's the thing, right? If if the best people came out of best schools, right? Huh? >> Then everyone that level of best would be average cuz everyone is all. >> But is that the truth? Like you pick the best school where you're living, right?

26:03>> Yeah. >> Huh? Go back 20 years. Check out every student, right? Is everybody absolutely being 100% successful in their lives? >> No. No. Right. >> Everyone's going to be 100%. >> Right. So, so what I'm saying is don't always expect that you need something. How do I say this? Right? That as parents and even as children, right? You don't have to assume that just

26:37because you have so many resources that somehow you will become very successful. Right? >> Like say you look at Sundarat Pij right he was living in a one-bedroom house in India. >> Yeah. nothing right and those cases are every like Satya he went to W Milwaukee >> it's a good university but it definitely is not a great university >> by any means right not at all

27:08>> compared to any IB >> or even compared to WMadison >> right but Satala is the CEO of Microsoft now right >> I think that's just a fact of like hard work and patience >> yes hard work patience and optimism >> and optimism. And I've always seen people succeed when they have a vision of what they want to do. >> Some people just know what they want to

27:32do. >> See, >> call of the day. >> I remember how I went to uh one of the best schools in Bangalore, right? >> I knew a few kids in my school, right? >> The level of clarity that they had in 8th, 9th and 10th grade, right? I had no clue, right? But they absolutely want they were sure what they want to do 10

27:54years from that point. >> Well, >> they had it all planned out. >> Yeah, I think that's a good thing cuz >> that's what makes a CEO, right? See, again, CEO is just the title. >> Yeah. >> Right. If that is if you want if you want to be very uh how do I call it? Right. If you want to have that conquer

28:14the world, you know, >> I kind of want it like I want to lead a group that like that I want to see successful kind of like be a leader. >> See, I would answer it in two ways. Well, you're you're thinking too young to become a leader in my Yes, you have to learn the qualities, >> but you have to first pick a skill that

28:37you want to be good at. >> Yeah. Pick a skill that you want to be good at, right? First, it can be any skill >> and commit to it. >> Commit to it. Excel at it, right? Become really good at it. And now become a leader to grow it. >> Yeah. >> Got it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. That's what I would say.

28:56>> So, that was this episode. We talked about World War II, post World War AI, and a whole bunch of stuff that are really exciting. Until until the next episode. See you then, guys. >> Thank you. Byebye. >> Thank you, Vicki. It was very nice. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Um >> Oh, by the way, uh one thing, right?

29:17Today is my birthday, >> actually. >> Yeah. >> Happy birthday. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> So, this was one of the best, uh birthday gifts that I could get, right? >> Yeah. You could go your go to home and see yourself speaking to me again. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. So until the next episode, this is Vicaran and hope you see you next

29:38episode and then bye-bye.