Name: The fourth industrial revolution
ISBN: 9781524758868

The fourth industrial revolution

"World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine "smart factories" in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals.

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delaminatorDec 2025

What you're describing is called The Fourth Industrial Revolution in Klaus Schwab's book.

Factory machines transmitting their current rate of production all the way up to International Govt. which, being all knowing, can help you regulate your production based on current and forecasted worldwide consumption.

And your machines being flexible enough to reconfigure to produce something else.

Stores doing the same on their sales and Central Bank Digital Currency tying it all together.

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narratorAug 2022

As someone who witnessed AI Dungeon's GPT-3 model with an unlimited uninhibited imagination for erotica I would download everything now before they cripple the models. I would not be surprised if they very shortly completely stop downloads due to "abuse" and pursue a SAAS model.

I think it's funny how Yandex, a Russian company, releases these big language models without all the AI safety handwringing in their press releases. The Russians have a tradition of releasing technology without giving a lot of worry about what happens to it, for better or for worse. For example, they made between 75 and 100 million ak-47s, a not in any way limited machine gun, and it spread to every corner of the world. They even gave out all the plans and technical assistance so any one of the organizations they worked with could produce their own. 20 different countries make ak-47s currently. Of course you had to register every xerox machine in the Soviet Union, so maybe they just had different priorities?

The west is absolutely fascinated these days with the control of advanced technology. Drones, Blockchain, and AI models seem to be the latest things that the west is determined to exercise control over. For example:

"Many of the technological advances we currently see are not properly accounted for in the current regulatory framework and might even disrupt the social contract that governments have established with their citizens. Agile governance means that regulators must find ways to adapt continuously to a new, fast-changing environment by reinventing themselves to understand better what they are regulating. To do so, governments and regulatory agencies need to closely collaborate with business and civil society to shape the necessary global, regional and industrial transformations." -Klaus Schwab, "The Fourth Industrial Revolution", Page 70.

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the_third_waveSep 2021

> It really seems like plans, expectations, regulations are constantly shifting ….almost like by design to cause systems/organizations to fail.

James Lindsay - of the hoax grievance studies [0] fame - talks about this in a lengthy series of netcasts [1] based around Herbert Marcuse's "An essay on liberation" [2]. According to his explanation these irrational and often counterproductive policies are part of an attempt to provide the conditions which would enable the creation of a new society based on "stakeholder capitalism" along the lines of Schwab's "Fourth Industrial Revolution" [3].

Read the essay - it is quite dense - and listen to Lindsay's thoughts on what Marcuse means to current affairs. Do it in that order to make sure you know what he is talking about, he sometimes stumbles over sentences and does not really know the German language at all while the original is written in that language and this translation still contains a number of German words. Form your own conclusion as to whether Lindsay is right in seeing Marcuse's take on the future of Marxist ideology reflected in current affairs.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-...

[0] https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studi...

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/2021/06/biological-foundation-soci...

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/2021/07/herbert-marcuses-new-sensi...

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/2021/08/marcuses-subverting-forces...

[1] https://newdiscourses.com/2021/09/herbert-marcuse-catastroph...

[2] https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/196...

[3] https://www.weforum.org/about/the-fourth-industrial-revoluti...

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FahadUddin92Dec 2018

I read 50 books this year. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/50-books-i-read-year-fahad-ud...

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The Defining Decade - Why Your Twenties Matter - Meg Jay

The Power of Habit

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Brain Rules

Automatic Millionaire

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Bootstrappers Bible

Startup Nation

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7 Habits of Highly Effective People

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Alibaba - The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark

Don't Make Me Think - A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability

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Outliers

Delivering Happiness

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Good to Great

Sacred Games

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Zero to One - Notes on Startups

Pour Your Heart Into It

Fourth Industrial Revolution

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olivermarksJan 2018

Think Davos cliques and The Fourth Industrial Revolution' by Schwab et al https://www.amazon.com/dp/1944835148?ref_=pe_870760_15088932... My comment was not necessarily a criticism, more an observation....

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