## Tags - Part of: [[Future of humanity, AI, sentience, futurology, politics|Futurology]] - Related: - Includes: - Additional: ## Technical summaries - Fourth [[Industrial Revolution]] is a describing rapid [[technology|technological]] advancement in the 21st century. - A part of this phase of industrial change is the joining of technologies like [[artificial intelligence]], [[gene editing]], to advanced [[robotics]] that blur the lines between the [[physics|physical]], [[computer science|digital]], and [[biology|biological]] worlds. - Throughout this, fundamental shifts are taking place in how the global production and supply network operates through ongoing [[automation]] of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices, using modern [[smart technology]], [[large-scale machine-to-machine communication]] (M2M), and the [[Internet of things]] (IoT). This integration results in increasing automation, improving communication and self-monitoring, and the use of smart machines that can analyse and diagnose issues without the need for [[human]] intervention. - It also represents a [[social system|social]], [[Politics|political]], and [[Economics|economic]] shift from the digital age of the late 1990s and early 2000s to an era of embedded connectivity distinguished by the ubiquity of technology in [[society]] (i.e. a [[metaverse]]) that changes the ways humans experience and know the [[world]] around them. It posits that we have created and are entering an [[augmented]] social [[reality]] compared to just the natural senses and industrial ability of humans alone. ## Main resources - [Fourth Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution) <iframe src="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 5; "></iframe> ## Landscapes - [[Benefits, risks, impact and future of artificial intelligence]]