Concern over Fourth Industrial Revolution


RECENTLY, much hype has been generated around Klaus Schwab’s propagation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as the foremost agenda in the World Economic Forum that he founded.

After Nicolaus Copernicus’ death in 1543, his ideas in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) began to gradually shift the attention from Ptolemy’s geocentric theory of the universe to the heliocentric idea of planetary revolution around the Sun.

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