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.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
How digitization and innovation can make the post-COVID world a better place
There is huge potential for digitization and innovation to add value to society and to contribute to public health, the environment, and biodiversity.
Emerging Technologies
Turbocharging scientific discovery: with bits, neurons, qubits – and collaboration
Through public-private partnerships, the world can embrace quantum computing to accelerate material discovery and address our most pressing challenges.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Scientists have created a revolutionary artificial skin
Researchers from the National University of Singapore have developed an 'electronic skin', capable of recreating a sense of touch thanks to more than 100 small sensors.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Why COVID-19 makes inclusion a strategic imperative for business
COVID-19 is a threshold moment in the alignment of words with deeds. Stakeholder capitalism and sustainable finance are gathering steam - are you on board?
Emerging Technologies
How AI can accelerate the search for treatments for emerging and intractable diseases
Artificial intelligence (AI) models and algorithms can save time and money in the search for drug candidates for emerging diseases, including COVID-19.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
A Car-building Robot Is Being Adapted To Covid-19
Emerging Technologies
How a robot called Fluffy is helping Ford engineers upgrade factories
'Fluffy' the robot is helping Ford redesign workspaces in its factories.
Emerging Technologies
This robot scientist conducts experiments by itself
An intelligent robot that works independently 21.5 hours a day is helping scientists at the University of Liverpool with their research using AI, its flexible arm and a customised gripper.
Emerging Technologies
Parts from the ISS have been used to design a new type of prosthetic limb
Researchers have designed a new type of prosthetic limb built with parts originally intended for the International Space Station.
Emerging Technologies
Ancient 'Acropolis of the sea' opens to divers, guarded by high tech
The National Technical University of Athens has developed a camera that will enable public access to the ancient 'Acropolis of sea wrecks', using artificial intelligence to make sure it ...
Nature and Biodiversity
Argentina is launching a state-of-the-art satellite to protect its forests
Argentina is planning to send a satellite, with cutting-edge technology into space to monitor forests.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
School girls in India discover an asteroid headed straight for earth
The two schoolgirls discovered the asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope, according to an Indian space institute.