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fourth
industrial
revolution
Defining the
Mobility Comms Energy Agricultural Production
Fourth
industrial
revolution
Networks of
autonomous
vehicles
Neuro-
communication
Distributed
energy systems
Fully
automated
farming
synthetic meat
Distributed
manufacturing,
ubiquitous
robots
Third
industrial
revolution
Satellite-guided
navigation,
digital transport
Internet, mobile
data, video,
digital and
social media
Alternative
energy systems
Precision
farming systems
Outsourced
production
systems, digital
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
capital-
intensive, scale
farming, global
supply chains
Factory
production, first
scaled
automation
Pre-industrial
revolution Sail-powered
shipping
Ad-hoc, private
communication
networks
Biomass, water,
animal and air
power
Domesticated
farming, small-
scale
agriculture
Artisanal
manufacturing
CRISPR Cas9
Hiroshi Nishimasu, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann, Soraya I. Shehata, NaoshiDohmae, 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
think systems, not technologies
empowering, not determining
by design, not by default
values as a feature, not a bug
THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT: HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TOCOMPUTERISATION?∗
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