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
Robots have demonstrated their crucial role in pandemics - and how they can help for years to come
Due to the highly infectious nature of the coronavirus, robots provide an advantage through contact-free alternatives for anything from healthcare to delivering food.
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
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
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.
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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
What is Strategic Intelligence and how can it help to inform your audience?
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.
Health and Healthcare Systems
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.
Health and Healthcare Systems
This is how COVID-19 is changing the nature of grief
Families are struggling to say goodbye to their loved ones in hospital. From funerals in isolation to grieving alone, this is how bereavement has changed in the time of coronavirus.
Health and Healthcare Systems
How to create a trustworthy COVID-19 tracking technology
Tracking technologies could help monitor the spread of coronavirus, yet they also raise privacy questions. Here are four ways to ensure responsible use.
Health and Healthcare Systems
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.