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.
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This is how COVID-19 is changing the nature of grief
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New MIT machine learning model shows relaxing lockdowns will spike COVID-19 cases
Using publicly available data, MIT have used machine learning to model what relaxing global lockdown rules could do to COVID-19 cases.
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How to create a trustworthy COVID-19 tracking technology
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This is how smart city technology can be used to tell if social distancing is working
Researchers from the University of Newcastle have developed an urban data dashboard to understand if social distancing is being followed - and effective.
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Coronavirus: Online dating has seen a surge in activity in India since the lockdown
Since India went into lockdown in March to tackle COVID-19, there's been a 26% increase on conversations of the platform OkCupid.
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Coronavirus: Can online courses teach us how to be happy during lockdown?
With almost half of the world’s population now isolating, people are heading online to find courses and resources that could make a difference to their mental health.
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Why remote working requires an effective culture of feedback
The coronavirus-enforced experiment in distributed workforces could succeed if we remember to put in place a culture of feedback that's continuous and empathetic.
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Italians stuck at home are measuring light pollution for ‘science on the balcony’
The project, created by the Italian National Research Council, aims to take widespread samples of light pollution in the country.
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COVID-19: Emerging technologies are now critical infrastructure – what that means for governance
Tech tools have become essential infrastructure under lockdown and reveal opportunities for governance.
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Lady Gaga is launching a virtual music festival to unite the world in the fight against coronavirus
With donations from corporations and philanthropists, the singer Lady Gaga has secured millions of dollars of funding for the World Health Organization's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund.
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How China’s industrial internet is fighting COVID-19
The industrial internet, focusing primarily on business and industry, has worked to protect society’s normal operation during China's COVID-19 outbreak.
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Coronavirus: Graduates replaced with robots in Japan
Using robots and mounted tablets, students could control avatar robots from the safety of their home and collect their diplomas.