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.
Also in this week's round-up: saying no to cryptocurrencies and how religion has made some countries rich.
It’s a myth that artificial intelligence is objective because it relies on maths.
Facebook and Microsoft just laid a new cable underneath the Atlantic.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating how they might use the blockchain to share medical data between organizations across the United States.
India's workers are optimistic about the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but they need new skills.
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to the coolest way to capture images of life’s molecular machinery – Cryo-Electron Microscopy.
How can the Fourth Industrial Revolution shed light on manufacturing processes?
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Science and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have conducted the first quantum video call using the Micius satellite launched in 2016.
Technology has been developed that reliably detects the Ebola virus in a blood sample seven times faster, ten times cheaper and 700 times safer than doing it in a lab.
Researchers at the University of Bath have created a biodegradable plastic using just sugar and carbon dioxide.
$980,000 awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne for their work on LIGO detector, which has opened a new window into the known universe.
Researchers have reported benefits and drawbacks of using smartphone and internet technology to administer mental health care.