Industries in Depth

Globalization 4.0, designer babies and other top stories of the week

Is the world ready for globalization 4.0? Image: Artem Bali on Unsplash

Adrian Monck
Managing Director, World Economic Forum Geneva
Share:
Our Impact
What's the World Economic Forum doing to accelerate action on Industries in Depth?
The Big Picture
Explore and monitor how Media, Entertainment and Sport is affecting economies, industries and global issues
A hand holding a looking glass by a lake
Crowdsource Innovation
Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale
Stay up to date:

Media, Entertainment and Sport

Grappling with globalization 4.0. The world isn’t ready for what’s coming.

National Jealousy Day. Finland has just published everyone’s taxes.

The new geopolitical order. The inevitable collision of three new geographies.

Designer babies? Ethics for new reality of genome editing.

Humans are underrated. Why the future of manufacturing still needs us.

Death will be optional. 7 predictions for the biotech century.

Want to reduce face-to-face interactions? Make your office open-plan.

Children like to hear the same story again and again — for a good reason.

Will ‘they’ become ‘us’? Understanding the real debates about immigration.

Meet the new meats — and a possible solution to world hunger.

The mathematics of social conflict. An AI simulates society.

Corpse hotels. New ways of dying in an aging society.

High-frequency trading from outer space.

Too many smoking guns. The economics of the Great War.

We all still feel the effects. Why the Great Recession did more damage than the Great Depression.

Globalization is here to stay. Quotes Forum president Børge Brende. (Telegraph)

How to make global climate action go viral. An op-ed by a Forum lead. (Forbes)

When robots ring the bell. Cites Future of Jobs Report. (New York Times)

Globalization 4.0 theme of 2019 Forum annual meeting. (Xinhua)

Rwanda and Alibaba launch electronic trade platform which the Forum helped create. (The East African)

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

Sign up for free

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

Related topics:
Industries in DepthEconomic GrowthGeo-Economics and Politics
Share:
World Economic Forum logo
Global Agenda

The Agenda Weekly

A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda

Subscribe today

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. For more details, review our privacy policy.

Industry government collaboration on agritech can empower global agriculture

Abhay Pareek and Drishti Kumar

April 23, 2024

1:44

About Us

Events

Media

Partners & Members

  • Join Us

Language Editions

Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

© 2024 World Economic Forum