The Fourth Industrial Revolution
European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels
01 March 2017
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Shaping the
Future of Retail
for Consumerfourth
Defining the industrial
Industriesrevolution
A World Economic Forum
project
in collaboration with
Accenture
Mobility
Comms
Energy
Agricultural
Fully
Distributed
automated
energy systems farming
synthetic meat
Production
Distributed
manufacturing,
ubiquitous
robots
Fourth
industrial
revolution
Networks of
autonomous
vehicles
Neurocommunication
Third
industrial
revolution
Satellite-guided
navigation,
digital transport
Internet, mobile
data, video,
digital and
social media
Alternative
energy systems
Outsourced
production
Precision
systems, digital
farming systems
production and
consumption
Second
industrial
revolution
Oil-powered
shipping, road
systems,
commercial
airline
Radio,
telephone
networks,
television, air
mail, mass
market books
Oil production,
gas turbines,
electricity
system
Artificial
fertilizer,
mechanized
farming, cold
chain
Scientific
management,
mass production
systems
First
industrial
revolution
Steam-power,
rail networks,
new navigation
aids and sea
routes
Organized
postal
networks,
newspapers,
widespread
printing
Coal and coal
mining, heat
engine and
steam power
Increasingly
capitalintensive, scale
farming, global
supply chains
Factory
production, first
scaled
automation
Ad-hoc, private
communication
networks
Biomass, water,
animal and air
power
Domesticated
farming, smallscale
agriculture
Artisanal
manufacturing
Pre-industrial Sail-powered
shipping
revolution
CRISPR Cas9
Hiroshi Nishimasu, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu,
Silvana Konermann, Soraya I. Shehata, Naoshi
Dohmae, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, and
Osamu Nureki - Crystal Structure of Cas9 in
Complex with Guide RNA and Target
DNA http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001
Kyle Stone
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think systems, not technologies
empowering, not determining
by design, not by default
values as a feature, not a bug
Photo Credit: Andrew McConnell / Panos
Tuca Vieira
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THE FUTURE OF
EMPLOYMENT: HOW
SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TO
COMPUTERISATION?∗
Carl Benedikt Frey† and
Michael A. Osborne‡
September 17, 2013
employment impact of the 4IR
Bruegel (2014): between 45 and 60% of European jobs
Pew (2014): 52% expect more jobs, 48% fewer by 2025
World Economic Forum (2016): 5.1 million net jobs lost by
2020
Katz and Krueger (2016): 93% of US jobs created between
2005-2015 in alternative forms of work
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governance
leadership
values
systems