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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

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Artificially intelligent robots. Self-driving cars. Neurotechnological brain enhancements. Genetic editing. The evidence of dramatic change is all around us, and it’s happening at an exponential pace. Previous industrial revolutions freed humankind from animal power, enabled mass production, and brought digital capabilities to billions of people. However, this Fourth Industrial Revolution is fundamentally different. It features a range of new technologies that are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds, affecting all fields, economies, and industries, and even challenging our ideas about what it means to be human.

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Attribution: World Economic Forum

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