The Fourth Industrial Revolution

The present conjuncture offers a rupture just as significant as these two earlier moments. As with the Second Disruption it will offer relative liberation from scarcity in vital areas – energy, cognitive labour and information rather than simply the mechanical power of the Industrial Revolution. As with the First it will signal a departure from all

It’s a pivotal instrument to confront the multitude of challenges, tiny and towering, urgent and slow-burning, local and global, facing people, communities, society, and future generations in the twilight of industrial era capitalism.

Il nous appartient donc de créer pour le monde un récit actualisé. De même que les bouleversements de la révolution industrielle donnèrent naissance aux idéologies nouvelles du XXe siècle, les prochaines révolutions de la biotechnologie et de la technologie de l’information exigent probablement des visions neuves. Les prochaines décennies pourraien