COMMENT | 4IR - Evolution or revolution?

COMMENT | The thing to do in any good poker game is to find the “mark”. If you don’t know who the mark is, then it’s probably you.

Figuring out what the “revolution” is in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a bit like that. Is it an AI, a blockchain, crypto, IoT, robotics, or what exactly?

In fact, it is the cumulative effect. Any of those technologies can be viewed as evolutionary, perhaps, on a stand-alone basis; together its impact is revolutionary.

Don’t be fooled either by the notion that it’s a long way off. Think of it like this: by the time you hear the thunder, it’s too late to stop the lightning...