I have had some requests for a quick digest of the Fourth Revolution book.
So, here is ‘The Fourth Revolution’ in 10 points:
- the Fourth Revolution changes the world as we know it fundamentally: our society, our institutions, the way we live… as much as society was transformed between the Agricultural and the Industrial Age;
- The Fourth Revolution root cause is cheap long distance interactive communication capabilities; that’s new and unprecedented;
- the Fourth Revolution will take a few decades to spread completely, yet it changes our world quickly already, and we need to change ourselves now to thrive through it;
- The Fourth Revolution development will be difficult and possibly painful at times. Yet overall, the development of humankind will allow more people to contribute to our collective cognitive capability, changing the world ultimately for the better;
- The value creation capability of the Collaborative Age is orders of magnitude higher than Manufacturing or Agriculture, the latter activities will become subsidized;
- The organization will become open and fluid – open to the influence of the outside, to a network of followers, a turbulent succession of temporary projects;
- The prevailing leadership style will be ‘mutual learning’ leadership. The leader is not any more the person who knows the way, he is the one who catalyzes the group;
- The leaders of the Collaborative Age will be the nomad K.E.E.Ns (Knowledge Exchanging Enhancing Networkers). They will drive their own career, and are fully nomadic;
- It is possible to be happy being a farmer or working in a factory. It is a choice. The worst is not to make any choice. Choose now whether to lean or not into the Fourth Revolution;
- On an unprecedented scale, each of us can change the world. The world can shaped the way we want, let’s do it now!
Of course each of these bullet points warrants a full development, which is exactly the purpose of the book…
Would you have additional bullet points to add?
