Full Title: The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
Author(s): National Academies of Sciences
Publisher(s): NAS
Publication Date: March 1, 2017
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Description (excerpt):
On October 25-26, 2016, the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable held a meeting to consider the
Fourth Industrial Revolution and its implications for manufacturing, as well as its likely social and economic effects.
The meeting also explored the cross-sector collaboration between government, universities, and industry needed to
accommodate emerging developments in the key technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, namely artificial
intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and the Internet of Things.
Thomas Philbeck, Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum (WEF), delivered the keynote address
on October 25. The Forum made the Fourth Industrial Revolution the theme of a significant amount of its work for
the past year (see Figure 1). The organization opened a Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco
in October 2016 that will host multi-stakeholder policy dialogues; work on issues related to technology, society, and
values; and conduct applied research around these issues.