Dla wszystkich tych co chcą podszkolić swój angielski i dowiedzieć się coś więcej w świecie w którym na szczęście lub nie przyjdzie nam żyć, polecam książkę Pana Klausa Schwaba: "The forth industrial revolution"

"In its scale, scope and complexity, what I consider to be the fourth industrial revolution is unlike anything humankind has experienced before. We have yet to grasp fully the speed and breadth of this new revolution. Consider the unlimited possibilities of having billions of people connected by mobile devices, giving rise to unprecedented processing power, storage capabilities and knowledge access. Or think about the staggering confluence of emerging technology breakthroughs, covering wide-ranging fields such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the internet of things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage and quantum computing, to name a few."

"The fourth industrial revolution, however, is not only about smart and connected machines and systems. Its scope is much wider. Occurring simultaneously are waves of further breakthroughs in areas ranging from gene sequencing to nanotechnology, from renewables to quantum computing. It is the fusion of these technologies and their interaction across the physical, digital and biological domains that make the fourth industrial revolution fundamentally different from previous revolutions."

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us, from self-driving cars and drones to virtual assistants and translation software."

"Today, voice recognition and artificial intelligence are progressing so quickly that talking to computers will soon become the norm, creating what some technologists call ambient computing, in which robotic personal assistants are constantly available to take notes and respond to user queries. Our devices will become an increasing part of our personal ecosystem, listening to us, anticipating our needs, and helping us when required—even if not asked."

"There are four main physical manifestations of the technological megatrends, which are the easiest to see because of their tangible nature: – autonomous vehicles – 3D printing – advanced robotics – new materials."

"In recent years, considerable progress has been achieved in reducing the cost and increasing the ease of genetic sequencing and, lately, in activating or editing genes."

"Already, IBM’s Watson supercomputer system can help recommend, in just a few minutes, personalized treatments for cancer patients by comparing the histories of disease and treatment, scans and genetic data against the (almost) complete universe of up-to-date medical knowledge. The ability to edit biology can be applied to practically any cell type, enabling the creation of genetically modified plants or animals, as well as modifying the cells of adult organisms including humans."

"Researchers have already started to engineer the genomes of pigs with the goal of growing organs suitable for human transplantation (a process called xenotransplantation, which could not be envisaged until now because of the risk of immune rejection by the human body and of disease transmission from animals to humans)."

"3D manufacturing will be combined with gene editing to produce living tissues for the purpose of tissue repair and regeneration—a process called bioprinting. This has already been used to generate skin, bone, heart and vascular tissue. Eventually, printed liver-cell layers will be used to create transplant organs."

"I am well aware of the potential deflationary impact of technology (even when defined as “good deflation”) and how some of its distributional effects can favor capital over labor and also squeeze wages (and therefore consumption)."

"Sooner than most anticipate, the work of professions as different as lawyers, financial analysts, doctors, journalists, accountants, insurance underwriters or librarians may be partly or completely automated."

"The technology is progressing so fast that Kristian Hammond, cofounder of Narrative Science, a company specializing in automated narrative generation, forecasts that by the mid-2020s, 90% of news could be generated by an algorithm, most of it without any kind of human intervention (apart from the design of the algorithm, of course)."

"In the age of the fourth industrial revolution, what is needed is not necessarily more or faster policy-making, but rather a regulatory and legislative ecosystem that can produce more resilient frameworks."

"Two conceptual approaches exist. In the first, everything that is not explicitly forbidden is allowed. In the second, everything that is not explicitly allowed is forbidden. Governments must blend these approaches."

"Digital technologies and global communication infrastructure significantly change the traditional concepts of work and pay, enabling the emergence of new types of jobs that are extremely flexible and inherently transient (the so-called on-demand economy). While these new jobs allow for people to enjoy more flexible working hours and might unleash a whole new wave of innovation in the job marketplace, they also raise important concerns with regard to the reduced degree of protection in the context of the on-demand economy, where every worker has essentially become a contractor, who no longer benefits from job security and longevity."

"The fourth industrial revolution will affect the scale of conflict as well as its character. The distinctions between war and peace and who is a combatant and noncombatant are becoming uncomfortably blurred. Similarly, the battlefield is increasingly both local and global."

"Shift 1: Implantable Technologies The tipping point: The first implantable mobile phone available commercially By 2025: 82% of respondents expected this tipping point will have occurred People are becoming more and more connected to devices, and those devices are increasingly becoming connected to their bodies. Devices are not just being worn, but also being implanted into bodies, serving communications, location and behavior monitoring, and health functions."