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.
Health and Healthcare Systems
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Smart wristbands, using tech from CarePredict, can monitor contact between patients in US care homes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Emerging Technologies
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Education and Skills
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Computers, programming and robotics provide ideal platforms to enable children to learn through experimentation and play. But access to tech is unequal.
Health and Healthcare Systems
How the Fourth Industrial Revolution can help us beat COVID-19
The tools of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, from Big Data to AI, combined with the right leadership have helped many countries respond to COVID-19.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Health and Healthcare Systems
Self-driving cars in the U.S. are delivering supplies – and gathering data – during COVID-19
Driverless cars, from Toyota, General Motors Co and Beep, are collecting data and testing their products by using them to assist with contact-free deliveries.
Health and Healthcare Systems
5 ways collective intelligence can help beat coronavirus in developing countries
As COVID-19 threatens less developed countries, collective intelligence and technology can help by offering insight into the pandemic and how to respond.
Health and Healthcare Systems
10 technology trends to watch in the COVID-19 pandemic
The coronavirus demonstrates the importance of – and the challenges associated with – new technologies like digital payments, telehealth and robotics.
Health and Healthcare Systems
The 4 key questions policymakers should ask COVID-19 modelers
Decision makers are relying on coronavirus forecasts to shape policy, so it's vital they ask how projections were made, write two scientists. Here are four key questions.
Emerging Technologies
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Last year, the World Economic Forum launched its Strategic Intelligence digital tool - and now there's a widget to help companies inform their audience.
Health and Healthcare Systems
Racing to save lives: How Mercedes F1 developed a lifesaving COVID-19 breathing aid
Engineers from UCL and Mercedes-AMG HPP teamed up to create a device to support coronavirus patients' breathing. Here's how they did it.
Health and Healthcare Systems
Here's the neuroscience of loneliness, and why technology can help
As a result of social distancing measures, more people than ever before are experiencing feelings of loneliness, but technology can help.