The Fourth Industrial RevolutionEuropean Economic and Social Committee, Brussels

01 March 2017

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Shaping the Future of Retail

for Consumer Industries

A World Economic Forum project

in collaboration with Accenture

fourth

industrial

revolution

Defining the

Mobility Comms Energy Agricultural Production

Fourth

industrial

revolution

Networks of

autonomous

vehicles

Neuro-

communication

Distributed

energy systems

Fully

automated

farming

synthetic meat

Distributed

manufacturing,

ubiquitous

robots

Third

industrial

revolution

Satellite-guided

navigation,

digital transport

Internet, mobile

data, video,

digital and

social media

Alternative

energy systems

Precision

farming systems

Outsourced

production

systems, digital

production and

consumption

Second

industrial

revolution

Oil-powered

shipping, road

systems,

commercial

airline

Radio,

telephone

networks,

television, air

mail, mass

market books

Oil production,

gas turbines,

electricity

system

Artificial

fertilizer,

mechanized

farming, cold

chain

Scientific

management,

mass production

systems

First

industrial

revolution

Steam-power,

rail networks,

new navigation

aids and sea

routes

Organized

postal

networks,

newspapers,

widespread

printing

Coal and coal

mining, heat

engine and

steam power

Increasingly

capital-

intensive, scale

farming, global

supply chains

Factory

production, first

scaled

automation

Pre-industrial

revolution Sail-powered

shipping

Ad-hoc, private

communication

networks

Biomass, water,

animal and air

power

Domesticated

farming, small-

scale

agriculture

Artisanal

manufacturing

CRISPR Cas9

Hiroshi Nishimasu, F. Ann Ran, Patrick D. Hsu, Silvana Konermann, Soraya I. Shehata, NaoshiDohmae, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang, and Osamu Nureki - Crystal Structure of Cas9 in Complex with Guide RNA and Target DNA http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2014.02.001

11Kyle Stone

think systems, not technologies

empowering, not determining

by design, not by default

values as a feature, not a bug

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Tuca Vieira

THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT: HOW SUSCEPTIBLE ARE JOBS TOCOMPUTERISATION?∗

Carl Benedikt Frey† and Michael A. Osborne‡September 17, 2013

employment impact of the 4IR

� Bruegel (2014): between 45 and 60% of European jobs

� Pew (2014): 52% expect more jobs, 48% fewer by 2025

� World Economic Forum (2016): 5.1 million net jobs lost by

2020

� Katz and Krueger (2016): 93% of US jobs created between

2005-2015 in alternative forms of work

© Antoine Imbert

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deeper issues

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Opportunities

leadership

systems

technology

values

governance