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What is Fourth Industrial Revolution

Handbook of Research on Ethics, Entrepreneurship, and Governance in Higher Education
The first industrial revolution (1714) used water and steam as the driving forces. The second (1870) was that of electricity and the division of labor. The third industrial revolution (1969) has been automation, electronics, and IT. We are entering the fourth industrial revolution.
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Fourth Industrial Revolution: Towards University Teaching Based on Values
Alicia Guerra Guerra (University of Extremadura, Spain) and Lyda Sánchez de Gómez (University of Extremadura, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5837-8.ch009
Abstract
We are at the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. The authors understand that university education should embrace the keys to this scenario and do so immediately. Considering this fact, new university teaching should be supported by technological immersion, but also by a culture of proactivity and training in values. The third of these pillars achieves an unimaginable relevance in regards to this emerging industrial revolution, which aims to become the revolution of values. Within this context, the university must move into the practice of ethical values and offer training based on soft skills. Moreover, there is a path that links ethics with soft skills based on the synergy between the two. From this idea, the central objectives of this work are to propose a university model for educational innovation based on values that also includes the tools for its implementation. The chapter ends with a practical case for implementing the model at the fablab that the University of Extremadura has available for its students majoring in Information Technology Engineering.
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Industrial revolution driven by cyber-physical systems involving entirely new capabilities for people and machines. Represents new ways to embed technology in society, and induces new ways of working and thinking for human and corporate matters. Used as synonym for Digital Transformation.
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The fourth industrial revolution is the digitalization of traditional manufacturing and business practices and also automation in the way we live.
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This new reality builds upon the third industrial revolution, driving the digital revolution that started in the late twentieth century and the further socioeconomic deployment of the “cyber-physical systems,” increasingly blurring the boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.
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Promoting Active and Meaningful Learning for Digital Learners
Or 4IR, is the fourth major industrial era since the initial Industrial Revolution of the 18th century. The Fourth Industrial Revolution can be described as a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, and impacting all disciplines, economies and industries. Central to this revolution are emerging technology breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing and nanotechnology.
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The initiation or dawn of intelligent and connected production systems designed to sense, predict, and interact with the physical world. These smart and connected systems allow for making decisions that support real-time production.
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The current phase of technological advancement characterized by the integration of digital technologies into various aspects of society, including manufacturing, communication, and automation, leading to significant transformations in industries and business models.
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An economy characterized by digital transformation, digital disruption, and trends such as the internet of things, virtual reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
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The fourth industrial revolution refers to the historical phase of global capitalism where radical transformations occur at institutional and socioeconomic levels due to the diffusion of “cyber-physical” systems.
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a period of rapid technological change blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological worlds. Advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, 3D printing, and other technologies drive it.
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the Nail Care Industry: Are Cyberattackers Sitting Pretty for a Zero-Day Attack?
Also known as Industry 4.0., refers to using digital technologies to change manufacturing and similar industries.
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Digital Transformation and Work 4.0: Preparation of Youngsters for the Job Market
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Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Food Systems
The current era of technological advancements is characterized by the integration of digital technologies, automation, and data exchange in various industries.
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Reskilling the Chinese Workforce in the New Era: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies
A term referring to the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, incorporating cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things, cloud computing, and cognitive computing.
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The Incorporation of Big Data in Mathematical Training for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Represents a fundamental change in the way we live, work and relate to one another. It is a new chapter in human development, enabled by extraordinary technology advances commensurate with those of the first, second and third industrial revolutions. These advances are merging the physical, digital, and biological worlds in ways that create both huge promise and potential peril. The speed, breadth and depth of this revolution is forcing us to rethink how countries develop, how organisations create value and even what it means to be human.
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Ransomware: The Cyber Extortionist
It is the ensuing era of computing, with the amalgamation of emergent technologies like cognitive and machine learning, artificial intelligence, internet of things, wearable technology, biotechnology, 3D printing, smart cities, etc., to create a smart world where everything communicates with everything else intelligently, with the purpose of achieving the unthinkable.
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Understanding Green Human Resources in Healthcare
Infusion of technological and digital practices towards advancement of productivity and operational capacity.
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Human Capital Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
This period marks the proliferation artificial intelligence in various industry, which took place since the beginning of 21 st century. It is affecting human lives in many different ways through its aspects of artificial intelligence, big data, robotics and many more to come.
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A Case Study on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as a Digital Economy Exemplar
The Fourth Industrial Revolution represents imagination of a new way to live. It is a chapter in human development, enabled by extraordinary technology advances. The revolution is not merely about technology driven change but an opportunity to serve everyone in all nations. The movement is inclusive, human centric and hopes to make a positive influence on the world.
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Sustainable Implications of Industry 4.0
Transition to new systems based on the structures of the previous digital revolution and characterized by its velocity, scope, and impact.
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International Business Staffing Challenges and the Growing Global Skills Gap in the New Post-COVID-19 Environment: A Latin American and Caribbean Perspective
The initiation or dawn of intelligent and connected production systems designed to sense, predict, and interact with the physical world. These intelligent and connected systems allow for making decisions that support real-time production.
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