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The fourth industrial revolution: what does WEF's Klaus Schwab leave out?

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imageDigital and physical worlds are predicted to become inseparable in the fourth industrial revolution.DNA Films

In April 2000, Bill Joy famously wrote in Wired Magazine:

Our most powerful 21st-century technologies – robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech – are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

At the time, Joy was an...

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