The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development, enabled by extraordinary technology advances commensurate with those of the first, second and third industrial revolutions. These advances are merging the physical, digital and biological worlds in ways that create both huge promise and potential peril. The speed, breadth and depth of this revolution is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organisations create value and even what it means to be human. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is about more than just technology-driven change; it is an opportunity to help everyone, including leaders, policy-makers and people from all income groups and nations, to harness converging technologies in order to create an inclusive, human-centred future. The real opportunity is to look beyond technology, and find ways to give the greatest number of people the ability to positively impact their families, organisations and communities.
A team of scientists have discovered the relationship between cancer and sugar, and revealed how the Warburg effect factors into the disease's development.
Seven hundred leaders of science and academia met in Dubai to workshop the future. Here's what they talked about.
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Planning for the effects of climate change in the future is helping the Danish authorities to tackle flood events today.
Just as electricity transformed the way industries functioned in the past century, artificial intelligence has the power to substantially change society in the next 100 years.
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Research suggests that music may not help us focus on all types of task.
Also in this week's round-up: the disturbing algorithms producing kids’ videos and why the Romans didn't have an industrial revolution.
Technology may change, but the challenge remains the same: How can a digital system authenticate an analog human’s identity?
Tokyo, Japan may have just become the first city to officially grant residence to an artificial intelligence.