Issue Briefing: Future Innovation
Innovation is happening at light speed but what does the progress in areas like robotics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, nanotechnology and genome editing mean? Are we ready for the 4th Industrial revolution?
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Image: A robot is pictured at the scientists congress IROS 2015 in Hamburg, German REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
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