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.
Could teaching refugees how to code help integration?
The School of Digital Integration is one of five computer programming centers in Germany and the Netherlands that teach refugees how to code.
How can businesses make the best use of the cloud?
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Could we adjust brain cells to reduce brain injury and disease?
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This factory is replacing robots with humans
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Scientists have identified the gene that triggers insomnia
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We can now 3D print fossils
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Are you ready for 5G internet?
Super-fast 5G internet could soon be available in homes and businesses.
What is an optical brush?
Scientists have developed a new imaging process using optical fibres.
How has the Arab Spring changed social media in the Middle East?
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The newly discovered secrets of the protein that makes skin stretchy
Researchers have uncovered the structure of elastins for the first time.
Is this the secret to superconductivity?
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