The fourth industrial revolution glossarium: over 1500 of the hottest terms you will use to create the future

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Cover designer Alexander Urievich Chesalov

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© Alexander Chesalov, 2023

© Abidal | Dreamstime, illustrations, 2023

© Alexander Urievich Chesalov, cover design, 2023

ISBN 978-5-0059-8626-9

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Good afternoon, dear friends and colleagues!

Let me introduce you to my new book, «The Fourth Industrial Revolution Glossarium: over 1500 of the hottest terms you will use to create the future».

This is my new book, which combines the experience of the last five years in compiling concise dictionaries on the topics of the information technology, the artificial intelligence, the digital economy, the digital health, the Internet of things and, of course, my favorite topic – the fourth industrial revolution.

This story began in 2019, when I spoke at the world famous international conference TEDx with the report «The Fourth Industrial Revolution: through hardships to the stars».

TEDx ForestersPark 2019

Today, we are increasingly encountering such terms as: «fourth industrial revolution», «information society», «knowledge society», «digitalization» and «digital economy», «Internet of things» and «industrial Internet of things», «Internet of Value», «digital ecosystem», «robotics» and «artificial intelligence», and many others. And very often we do not understand what it is and cannot, for various reasons, understand the essence of modern «digital» processes that are happening to us and in the world around us.1

I will give a simple example.

In this book, the «global information society» or «digital society of the future» is defined as a new global knowledge society that exists and interacts, and is also closely integrated into a fundamentally and qualitatively new «digital» social, economic and cultural ecosystem in which a free exchange of information and knowledge between people, using artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, which are auxiliary interfaces for the interaction of people and machines, computers, robots, wearable and mobile devices, etc.

Germany. Hanover. International IT Exhibition CeBIT 2007

The global information society is a society of the future also because its development is based on intellect, information and knowledge, which are a catalyst for the emergence and development of new social, economic and including information technologies, which in turn transform both the information society itself, and the reality around us on the principle of a feedback system.

One example of the globalization of the information society and its gradual transformation is the widespread use in all areas of activity around the world of the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. Robotics and artificial intelligence, new computing technologies and big data, digital platforms and ecosystems, new nano- and biotechnologies, and so on, they all unite all people around the world and are a catalyst for the «digital transformation» of modern society.

Germany. Hanover. International IT Exhibition CeBIT 2012

It is important to note that in the coming decades, the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution will radically change the way we perceive the world around us. They will change approaches to the processing and analysis of information, change the way people interact, change the processes of production of products and services, and, ultimately, form our new value systems. Humanity will have an understanding not only that information and big data are a value, but there will also be an understanding that they will largely determine the development of modern society. It can be said that right now the so-called «critical mass» of knowledge and technologies is being formed, which will «blow up» the world of technology and science, and change our daily life.

For many years I have been interested in robotics and artificial intelligence. Also, I was very interested in the direction of work – consumer robotics, or in simple terms, I was interested in the direction of creating humanoid robots that could help people, including those with disabilities, in their daily lives.

Kazan. Kazan Federal University 2018

In 2007, robots were imperfect. Software for artificial intelligence systems based on machine learning was in its infancy. The intelligent assistants that we now often encounter when interacting with our smartphones have not yet been. And there is no need to talk about humanoid robots.

With the advent of the new millennium, the fourth industrial revolution changed the usual order of things.

Most of the modern terms of the fourth industrial revolution appeared in the period of the second and third industrial revolutions. I talk about this in detail in my book «Digital Transformation».