We need a fourth technological revolution - Inaugural lecture

We need a fourth technological revolution if we are to continue to be able to feed the growing world population. This is the view of professor of Information Technology Bedir Tekinerdogan, who gave his inaugural lecture on 2 February 2017.
Humanity has made three major technological leaps: the harnessing of steam and water power, the discovery of electricity, and the digital revolution. We now find ourselves in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution, he says, with several major innovations such as artificial intelligence, robotics, cloud computing and big data. In industry 4.0, the distinction between systems and factories becomes fuzzy (News Item WUR, 21 February 2017).
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