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If youd asked the textile workers of the 19 th century to define. In this era, economies, businesses, communities, and politics are being fundamentally transformed. The third industrial revolution began in the 1960s. Get regular weekly updates, join conversations on facebook and other digital platforms, participate in online and facetoface 4ir events. Today, technology is changing everythinghow we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and goverments function, and even what it means to be human. The fourth industrial revolution schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on. At this years world economic forum annual meeting, the socalled fourth industrial. Pdf the fourth industrial revolution klaus schwab animeid. Klaus schwab is founder and executive chairman of the world economic forum. The fourth industrial revolution hardcover january 3, 2017. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. The fourth industrial revolutionthe complete digitization of the social, the political, and the economicis tugging at the very fabric of society, changing the way that individuals relate to one another and to the world at large. The fourth industrial revolution that is underway can compromise humanitys traditional sources of meaning work, community, family, and identity or it can lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a sense of shared destiny.
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