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.
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A look at how advanced analytics and data can be used to inform better business decision making.
Should we be worried about a world ruled by algorithms?
Alan Reid examines the increasing role of algorithms in our daily lives, and discusses whether we need more control.
Looking for aliens? Forget the telescope, just use data
A team of researchers at Yale have developed a method for searching for distant planets using data alone.
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Biotechnology: what it is and how it's about to change our lives
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If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that robots need ethics
It's time to create an ethical framework for artificial intelligence, argues Susan Leigh Anderson.
This is the world's smallest radio. It's inside a diamond
Researchers have made the world’s smallest radio receiver.
Cut congestion by taking cars off the road. And moving them underground
A London-based firm, is proposing moving vehicles underground.
What Star Wars can teach us about the loyalty of robots
Artificial intelligence could be encouraged, reprogrammed or hacked to defect, writes Jonathan Roberts.
Goodbye car ownership, hello clean air: welcome to the future of transport
This is what the future of transport will look like, thanks to two cutting-edge technologies.
Using technology inspired by manta rays to count the plastic in our oceans
There are 269,000 tons of plastic floating on the surface of the ocean, with much more littering the depths below, and its destroying ecosystems across the world.