Kate Rodriguez - Have we reached the fourth industrial revolution (2017)

 

Abstract

 

When political, business and nonprofit leaders meet each January for the World Economic Forum (WEF), one theme dominates the conversation. This year, it was the ideas in Klaus Schwab’s book The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which asserts that global society is entering a new phase of development, one in which disruptive technologies are fundamentally changing the world. The fusion of the digital world with the physical one brought about by breakthroughs in areas like artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality, 3-D printing and energy storage will affect nearly every aspect of the way we work and live.