Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

By: Klaus Schwab, Satya Nadella - foreword, Nicholas Davis

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

World Economic Forum founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab offers a practical companion and field guide to his previous book, The Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Today, technology is changing everything - how we relate to one another, the way we work, how our economies and governments function, and even what it means to be human. 

One need not look hard to see how the incredible advances in artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, biotechnologies, and the Internet of things are transforming society in unprecedented ways. But the fourth industrial revolution is just beginning, says Schwab. And at a time of such tremendous uncertainty and such rapid change, he argues it's our actions as individuals and leaders that will determine the trajectory our future will take.  

We all have a responsibility - as citizens, businesses, and institutions - to work with the current of progress, not against it, to build a future that is ethical, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous. 

Drawing on contributions from 200 top experts in fields ranging from machine learning to geoengineering to nanotechnology, to data ethics, Schwab equips listeners with the practical tools to leverage the technologies of the future to leave the world better, safer, and more resilient than we found it.

©2018 Klaus Schwab (P)2018 Random House Audio

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This book was a very detailed assessment of the next world theme. The narrators voice was one note, introductory chapters were significant but high level information not meant for laymen. The chapters on currencies & AI were great. Elon Musk & Cathy Wood devoteès know these concepts as truth!!

Old news and pathetic rhetoric

Very dissatisfied by this book. No new information, brain washing in it worse form and very boring language and performance.

Solid insight into 4IR

Insightful coverage on the 4th industrial revolution. A splendid read book that gives a rather high level insight into the oportunities as well as threats of the 4IR.

You know something's happening-this helps explain.

Future unfolding told with a a clear and practical point of view. Well conceived, detailed and explained in a way that makes compelling sense to witness history in the making. Highly recommended for those who sense the surging current of technology and need to know where its taking us with or with out us knowing.

Waste of my time

Same thing repeating over and over again about how the world should be a fair place. It’s like being in a very long meeting where nothing gets done and just chewing the words over and over again. Disastrous.

Technocratic Guide to Marxism

It sounds warm fuzzy, and the reader gave a great performance.

But it was a painful sermon to guilt-trip leaders into redistributing wealth, reduce population in intelligent peoples. It's a great strategy to make us lazy and dependent on new technologies, and allow businesses to pay less to employees.

Shows Schwabe in a good way.

Recommended reading for anyone who, like myself earlier, thinks Schwab is advocating some kind of world society control, or other "evil" things often attributed to him and the WEF. This book shows that he is in fact advocating the opposite: for people - everyone - to put effort in understanding new tech, and remain in control. He outlines the numerous ways new emerging tech can be misused by corporations and governments, and how government attempts to control such misuse are too slow for the pace of new tech development. He advocates caution before rushing to embrace into wide use tech such as VR/AR, AI and big data, or geoengineering, bringing up concerns about preserving healthy human interactions while using VR, preserving privacy in a world where Big Data can decypher anything about anyone, and preserving global nature in a world of both climate change and radical ideas about how to reverse it.

Great follow up on the first book

Excellent sequel to the first book. Especially all the warnings to actors. Inclusion of all participants of the global village is important. Or else you end up with great divide and no progress shared by everyone on this planet. Systems thinking is the norm but still lacking in the palaces of governance unfortunately the pandemic displays this currently. There is always hope