Forth industrial revolution

Question 1

schwab: goals in writing the book

Answer 1

1. raise awarness
2. create a framework
3. inspire collaborative actions
4. emphasize the coexistence between technology and society

Question 2

problems

Answer 2

1 systemic inequalities
2 traditional thinking preventing to cope with new technologies
3 conflict
4 ethic challeges

Question 3

revolution

Answer 3

= abrupt and radical change that occurs when new techs and novel wys of perceiving the world trigger a change in the economic and social structures

Question 4

drivers

Answer 4

• physical (autonomous vehicles, 3d printing)
• digital (IoT, sharing/o demand economy)
• biological (synthetic biology)

Question 5

characteristics

Answer 5

• velocity
• breadth and depth
• impacts on systems/societies

Question 6

prevoius ind rev

Answer 6

1st:
- steam engine and railways
- colonialism + environmental degradation
- world wealthier
2nd:
- electricisy + telecommunications + combustion engine
- plastic
3rd:
- information thepry + digitali computing
- store, process, tranmit info changed socio eocnomical structures