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
Is Latin America ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is likely to be even more disruptive in Latin American countries.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Is technology at work your friend or foe?
Creating a human-friendly innovation economy is today’s defining challenge and opportunity. How well-prepared are we?
Emerging Technologies
AI could reinforce gender inequality
The data we use to train machines is biased and could teach them gender inequality.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Podcast: Your role in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
In our final episode of ’Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, we convene our own experts to discuss what we can all do as individuals to play our part in this great and important dr...
Economic Growth
Why economists and scientists disagree on long-term growth
Economist Kenneth Rogoff takes a closer look at the impact of AI and new technologies on economic growth.
Emerging Technologies
This AI can read your mind - sort of
Japanese scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that can tell what you're looking at.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
New technologies must create jobs, not destroy them
Every industrial revolution ushers in progress along with disruptions, writes the President of Salesforce.
Emerging Technologies
If you want your child to get a good job, let them play more
With automation becoming a risk to the jobs of future generations, playing might provide the education that puts them on top.
Education and Skills
Automation could make us less productive. Here's why
Though automation will take unwanted tasks off of our hands, it could also impact motivation and business costs.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Podcast: An Inclusive Revolution?
Will it be the top 1% at the expense of the rest of us, or will the proceeds be shared equitably enough to make it worthwhile for everyone?
Geographies in Depth
How emerging tech will change India's workforce
If India's workforce is to achieve in the future, reskilling in emerging technology may be the answer.
Resilience, Peace and Security
A glimpse into the future of international security
In this week’s episode of “A Glimpse into the Future”, we talk to the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum’s Council on the Future of International Security: Dr Shirley Ann Jackson, pres...