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The Fourth Industrial Revolution

By: Klaus Schwab
Narrated by: Mr Nicholas Guy Smith
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Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab, read by Nicholas Guy Smith.

The founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum on how the impending technological revolution will change our lives.

We are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. And this one will be unlike any other in human history.

Characterized by new technologies fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will impact all disciplines, economies and industries - and it will do so at an unprecedented rate. World Economic Forum data predicts that by 2025 we will see commercial use of nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than human hair; the first transplant of a 3-D-printed liver; 10 percent of all cars on US roads being driverless; and much more besides.

In The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Schwab outlines the key technologies driving this revolution; discusses the major impacts on governments, businesses, civil society and individuals; and offers bold ideas for what can be done to shape a better future for all.

©2017 Klaus Schwab (P)2017 Penguin Audio

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delusional, out of touch, control freak...YAWN....

Urghhh. This book sounds like someone desperate to be seen as intelligent and distinguished and who is completely OUT OF TOUCH with reality and the normal every-day person. Control freak. Typical globalist over opinionated know-it-all. Yes, you might know a lot about looking at the world from the point of view of someone high up in the food chain, but you have no emotional connection to anything or anyone. Your view of the world is purely from the perspective of control and business and how to make a buck. This type of attitude and lack of heart is EXACTLY what is wrong with this world. Despite my criticism and disgust by the way you seem to think and act and my attempt at denying people like klaus exist, this book will be quite an insight for some people who cannot normally see the bigger picture and how everything ties in together. Good luck with your global plans and all the psychos on your side. You too, will die one day and then none of this financial, business and materialist crap you are so obsessed with, will even matter and you will have emotionally failed at life and died with a heart void of love. Start looking inward Klaus. You are wasting what's left of your life and leading all the sheep down a path of lonliness, mental illness and disconnection from what it even means to be human. I feel a bit sorry for you actually, and everyone that thinks like you. So out of touch. I would have thought that by now, after all these years of meddling and interfering, and clearly not evaluating how crap a job you are all doing, you would be able to see that all of you only make everything worse. All of your input and other organizations' have not achieved anything besides financial wealth to the detriment of others... and that is not why we are here on this earth. You really are only assisting in ruining the planet and the lives of everyone on it. From forcing all of us to only buy cheap shit that breaks and is disposed of for all these years, then complaining we all create too much waste and now blame us and tell us it's all our fault? All of these sorts of examples are your fault and the people who think like you because you steered people in this direction. You people are sick, money hungry, power hungry psychos. Get off the planet, the lot of you. This book sucks. You are boring and self obsessed and obviously think you are so important and smarter than anyone else. God you must be boring to talk to in person. urghhhh. Get a life Klaus. Thumbs down. Maybe read the book if you want a laugh and multiple eye rolls and an insight into who or what are trying to run the world and influence all our governments etc. F*ck me. If this book was in physical form it would be gathering dust or being used as kindling hahaha boooo

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Good but have heard before

Excellent narration by Nicholas, however the story is/was told by two other books - The second machine age and Industries of the future. If you have read the previous two then you skip this one - or - read this one and skip the other two.

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Ignore the conspiracy theorists!

Fantastic book. Required reading for anyone wishing to understand the correlation between our modernising society and the changing financial institutions.

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fascinating look into the present future

Ignore the dopey conspiracy theorists terrified of change. An incredible insight into the present from years past. So interesting!

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