scholarly journals Post Human Craft: A Humble Attempt to Reorient Makers to the Inevitable

Cubic Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 150-165
Author(s):  
James Stevens ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Evolution ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
First Century ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Digital Algorithms ◽  
Waking Up

Nearing the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century many craftspeople and makers are waking up to the inevitable reality that our next human evolution may not be the same, that this time it could be different. Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum refers to what we are beginning to experience as the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Schwab 2017, 01). Schwab and his colleagues believe that this revolution could be much more powerful and will occur in a shorter period than the preceding industrial and digital revolutions. This revolution will cause a profound change in how we practice, labour and orient ourselves in the world. Rapidly evolving technologies will proliferate the use of robotics and personalised robots (co-bots) that can sense our presence and safely work alongside us. Digital algorithms are already becoming more reliable predictors of complex questions in medicine and economics than their human counterparts. Therefore, the gap between what a computer can learn and solve and what a robot can do will quickly close in the craft traditions. This article will engage in the discourse of posthumanism and cybernetics and how these debates relate to craft and making. Intentionally this work is not a proud manifesto of positions, strategies, and guidelines required for greatness. Alternatively, it is a humble attempt to reorient makers to the necessary discourse required to navigate the inevitable changes they will face in their disciplines. Thus, the article seeks to transfer posthumanist literary understanding to intellectually position craft in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

scholarly journals The Disruptive Futures of Education—Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 407-412
Author(s):  
Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

AbstractThe year 2020 is mostly known to many as an inflection point. A metaphorical vision to look far ahead, with clarity, taking on the various “disruptions” that have been much touted, namely, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Since its pronouncement, four years ago, during the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, the world of higher education has been inundated with demands to introduce the so-called ‘Education 4.0’.

scholarly journals The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Xu ◽  
Jeanne M. David ◽  
Suk Hi Kim
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Separate Event ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Automate Production ◽  
Third Industrial Revolution ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

The fourth industrial revolution, a term coined by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, describes a world where individuals move between digital domains and offline reality with the use of connected technology to enable and manage their lives. (Miller 2015, 3) The first industrial revolution changed our lives and economy from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. Oil and electricity facilitated mass production in the second industrial revolution. In the third industrial revolution, information technology was used to automate production. Although each industrial revolution is often considered a separate event, together they can be better understood as a series of events building upon innovations of the previous revolution and leading to more advanced forms of production. This article discusses the major features of the four industrial revolutions, the opportunities of the fourth industrial revolution, and the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution.

scholarly journals Country competitiveness in the era of globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-313
Author(s):  
Dušanka Jovović
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Country Competitiveness

An extremely complex nature of competition processes often makes the identification of the category of country competitiveness inaccurate and complicated to understand. This is particularly manifested in the era of globalization and the affirmation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as two phenomena that shape contemporary developments in the world to a large extent. Globalization and the Fourth Industrial Revolution have ensured economic prosperity to some countries, but at the same time, they have also caused increasingly prominent developmental inequalities at worldwide level. The same conclusion refers to the matter of the competitiveness level achieved by the countries. This is convincingly proved by the 2019 World Economic Forum data about country competitiveness, based on which the greatest number of the countries in the world are still far from the targeted "limit" of competitiveness.

scholarly journals To What Degree is the Fourth Industrial Revolution an Opportunity or a Threat for the ASEAN Community and Region?

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weng Marc Lim
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

This article aims to offer a brief and quick dissemination on the potential impacts—in the form of opportunities and threats—of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the ASEAN region. It is in line with one of the programme pillars of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN, specifically ASEAN and the connectivity agenda. The author hopes that this article will stimulate further dialogues and investigations on how the ASEAN community can capitalize and leverage on the inherent opportunities and avoid and overcome the underlying threats arising from the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

scholarly journals Foreword

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Manuela Epure
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Recently, the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting took place from 17-20 January 2017 at Davos-Klosters, Switzerland and then key topic was Global Governance and the related issues such as: Fourth Industrial Revolution, responsive and responsible leadership, restoring economic growth and global collaboration.[1]Important changes are expected regarding size, speed and scope of these transformations that Fourth Industrial Revolution generated.  The transformations consist mainly of new systems built on the infrastructure of the digital revolution. Also, this will fundamentally change the way in which we produce, consume, move, communicate and interact with one another.  Nanotechnologies and given new powers of genetic engineering will impact dramatically who we are and how we think and behave[2] . 

PERCEPTIONS OF THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM ON LABOR IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND REFLECTIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DECENT WORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Beltramelli Neto ◽  
Leandro Faria Costa
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Este artigo pretende reconstituir os elementos que estruturam o conteúdo da expressão “Quarta Revolução Industrial”, tal como adotada pelo Fórum Econômico Mundial (FEM), e cotejar tal conteúdo com os propósitos da promoção do Trabalho Decente, nos termos difundidos pela Organização Internacional do Trabalho. Trata-se de investigação de cunho exploratório e analítico, para qual empregaram-se a metodologia dedutiva de abordagem e a metodologia bibliográfica de procedimento, com ênfase no exame de documentos oficias (estudos e relatórios) do FEM, editados entre 2014 e 2019 e cujo teor aborde mais diretamente os impactos da Quarta Revolução Industrial no mundo do trabalho, sobretudo nas dimensões estratégicas de promoção do Trabalho Decente preceituadas pela OIT. Ao final, conclui-se do quanto consta dos documentos examinados que, a despeito das aproximações aparentemente cogitáveis entre os objetivos estratégicos da promoção do Trabalho Decente e o tratamento dos impactos da Quarta Revolução Industrial no mundo do trabalho, tal se estabelece como artifício retórico, destituído de aptidão para atacar o âmago da intensificação da exploração da força de trabalho e da desigualdade social, agudizadas pelo avanço tecnológico sobre as formas de labor.

SHORT-TERM, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL, FORECAST OF THE FUTURE OF WORK

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (XIX) ◽  
pp. 313-331
Author(s):  
Andrzej Świątkowski
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Technological Transformation ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Modern Technologies

The fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) dynamically shift the line between the work performed by humans and those performed by machines, technologies, algorithms and artificial intelligence. The author examines The Future of Jobs Report 2018 published by Centre for the New Economy Society of the World Economic Forum. He tries to argue that the current technological transformation in the next five years, 2018-2022, managed wisely may improved the quality and productivity of work performed by human employees. The problem is that many of employees afraid that robots, computers, modern technologies an AI will eliminate jobs performed by human beings. The Author argues that technology eliminates jobs, not work

Revolutionary dreams: Future essentialism and the sociotechnical imaginary of the fourth industrial revolution in Denmark

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-566
Author(s):  
Kasper Schiølin
Keyword(s):  
Public Reason ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
National Level ◽  
Original Material ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
To Come

In 2015, the World Economic Forum announced that the world was on the threshold of a ‘fourth industrial revolution’ driven by a fusion of cutting-edge technologies with unprecedented disruptive power. The next year, in 2016, the fourth industrial revolution appeared as the theme of the Forum’s annual meeting, and as the topic of a book by its founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab. Ever since, the Forum has made this impending revolution its top priority, maintaining that it will inevitably change everything we once know about the world and how to live in it, thus creating what I conceptualize as ‘future essentialism’. Within a short space of time, the vision of the fourth industrial revolution was institutionalized and publicly performed in various national settings around the world as a sociotechnical imaginary of a promising and desirable future soon to come. Through readings of original material published by the Forum, and through a case study of the reception of the fourth industrial revolution in Denmark, this article highlights and analyses three discursive strategies – ‘dialectics of pessimism and optimism’, ‘epochalism’ and ‘inevitability’ – in the transformation of a corporate, highly elitist vision of the future into policymaking and public reason on a national level.

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