The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Book by Klaus Schwab

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Book by Klaus Schwab

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, 4IR, or Industry 4.0, conceptualizes rapid change to technology, industries, and societal patterns and processes in the 21st century due to increasing interconnectivity and smart automation. The term has been used widely in scientific literature and was popularized by Klaus Schwab 2015, the World Economic Forum Founder and Executive Chairman. Schwab asserts that the changes seen are more than just improvements to efficiency, but express a significant shift in industrial capitalism. A part of this phase of industrial change is the joining of technologies like artificial intelligence, and gene editing, to advanced robotics that blurs the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds [Wikipedia]