Automation, Innovation and Economic Crisis - 9780367590499

Taylor & Francis

Automation, Innovation and Economic CrisisSurviving the Fourth Industrial Revolution\nAuthor(s): Jon-Arild Johannessen\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367590499, 978-0367590499\nSynopsis\nThe fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre. It is also taking place at enormous speed. This development will shape the workplaces of the future, which will be entirely different from the workplaces created by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Industry created the industrial worker. The knowledge society will create a new type of \""industrial worker\"", the knowledge worker. While the third industrial revolution was concerned with the digitalization of work, in the fourth industrial revolution, robots will bring about the informatization of work. Many of these robots will be systematically connected, such that they can obtain updated information and learn from their own.