The Fourth Revolution is Not Waiting for You.

For centuries, humans barely evolved technologically during the stone age, the axial age, and the pre-industrial era. For example, Homo Erectus traveled around the world just as fast as Jesus, and just as fast as Napoleon. Humans only accelerated tremendously after the industrial revolution. However, there were much opposition in the inevitable placement of science instead of theology, steam engines instead of horses, and hopes for the future, instead of tradition. 

In today's world, there isn't much difference about the opposition of the inevitable, Fourth Industrial Revolution from the predecessors. We already see increasing skepticism about the trust in digital medium, such as Facebook. People purchase plastic laptop camera blockers in paranoia of the FBI or CIA lurking into our private lives. Instead of Luddites, we have conspirators that prophesies over our future that looks striking similar to the movie "Terminator." Klaus Schwab exclaimed that “We must develop a comprehensive and globally shared view of how technology is affecting our lives and reshaping our economic, social, cultural, and human environments. There has never been a time of greater promise, or greater peril.

So the million dollar question, quite literally, is what can we do to prepare and hopefully profit off of the new era? According to Pierre Nanterme, the CEO of Accenture, the main reason why over half of the fortune 500 companies have disappeared since 2000 is because of digital technology. Much so, but in a higher intensity, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will bring chaos in most companies; if firms cannot grasp the scale of the change, and adopt accordingly, retirement will be inevitable. With drones, microchips, 3D printing technology, and auto driving cars all smothered in independent AIs, good luck trying to do business the 'old way.'

There is no secret in why the 10 most demanded employees from companies in 2018 were all related to skills in  information technology and systems . Arming yourself with such skills like coding language will help you cut the long line of people waiting for employment in the future. Don't be scared of the change, because either we all like it or not, it is coming, and it's coming fast. Embracing technology seems to be the biggest winners in our history lesson with John D. Rockefeller, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford. 

It's not safe anymore to "play by the rules." The rules are going to be rewritten completely in a world full of exhausting amount of wonderful technologies. A terrific read to learn more about the nature of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is a book by Klaus Schwab: The Fourth Industrial Revolution.