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.
In this week's round-up, you can also read about alien asteroids, digital distrust and the AI that beat 20 lawyers.
It's how people choose to use new technologies that will decide how the production jobs of the future evolve.
Technology and lengthening life spans are transforming the way we work. This is how to build a career that is satisfying, meaningful and sustainable.
Also this week: The US leaves a 144-year-old treaty, why a US-China cold war isn’t likely, the drone industry booms in Africa, and more
Your next new colleague might be a machine. A tech CEO explains how to get along with robots - and why you might miss them when they go off to charge.
Workers will need a magic mix of skills to survive the technological revolution, says Guy Ryder of the International Labour Organization.
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It’s often said that “data is the new oil”. Instead, we’d argue that trust will decide the success of businesses and of the Fourth Industrial Revolution itself.
Drawing on his time as co-chair of the WEFs Global Future Council on Education, Gender and Work, Stephane Kasriel has tried to distill some of the Council’s most important research into a...
Even as globalization has led to unprecedented gains for many from the movement of goods, services, people and ideas, there are those who have lost out – economically, politically or cult...