Tag Archives: Industrial revolution

Mining companies warn of weak commodity price outlook (FT)

Some of the world’s largest mining companies have become increasingly pessimistic about a sustained rally in global commodity prices this year after an insipid recovery in China led to a drop in first-half earnings. Duncan Wanblad, chief executive of Anglo American, said on Thursday that an “enormous amount of economic pressure” was making it hard […]
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What everyone must know about Industry 4.0

By: Bernard Marr June 20, 2016 Source: https://www.forbes.com First came steam and the first machines that mechanized some of the work our ancestors did. Next was electricity, the assembly line and the birth of mass production.  The third era of industry came about with the advent of computers and the beginnings of automation, when robots […]
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Where are the ‘brain belts’ of the future? (Weforum)

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti June 10, 2016 Source: https://www.weforum.org  

13 signs the fourth industrial revolution is almost here (The World Economic Forum)

The pace and scale of technological change is so frenetic that some predict we are entering a fourth industrial revolution, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things and big data. Indeed, the changes are coming so thick and fast, that it can be difficult to take a step back and attempt to understand […]
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