GLOBAL PROBLEMS IN THE LIGHT OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to determine the influence directions of the Fourth industrial revolution on the global world’s development problems. The Fourth Industrial Revolution causes a number of new challenges for world development and exacerbates global problems in several key areas: - Disintegration to jobs and skills. Business models change deeply affects the employment pattern. As a result appears a significant job creation and job turnover, as well increases productivity and multiplies gaps between the needed by employers skills and habits of work that potential employees can offer. Strategic capability management requires sustained dialogue and collaboration between enterprises, governments, education providers and civil society. - Innovation and productivity. The gap between innovation and productivity consists in that modern innovations are economically less profitable than significant changes in the past industrial revolutions that have renewed the overall organization, energy and transport systems. However, it is also possible that the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on productivity has not yet become obvious, as it increases efficiency in areas that are traditionally impossible to measure precisely. - Inequality. The inequality increase and the corresponding negative impact on social stability is one of the greatest potential risks associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Despite the fact that new technologies can democratize access to employment opportunities and entrepreneurship, also to education and knowledge, the tendency of new global technology platforms to prevail the winners in all markets can increase inequality and social fragmentation. - Agile Governance. Governments can use the technologies of the Fourth industrial revolution to better manage, increase accessibility and transparency and trust, and better track public assets. However, they also create governance problems, because technological progress in some cases threatens a social contract between the government and citizens. Governments will be forced to change their approach to the creation and implementation of regulation, and the creation of new tools for the new technologies dissemination. Indeed, flexible leadership should take into account how new technologies affect job markets, money and taxation, responsibility, security, and confidentiality, to assess ways to eliminate imbalances of power. - Security and conflict. The Fourth industrial revolution will affect the scale and nature of the conflicts. Already, differences between war and peace, as well as between combat and non-combat actions are blurred. New technologies become the battlefield more and more local and global. As a consequence modern conflict is increasingly hybrid in nature, combining traditional combat techniques with elements previously associated with armed non-state players. - Ethics and Identity. Initiated by the Fourth Industrial Revolution Innovations in such disciplines as biotechnology and artificial intellect reinterpret what it means to be human, causes changing the limits of life, health, knowledge and other possibilities. The progress of knowledge and new discoveries generates an appropriate moral and ethical debate. Confidentiality, data security and identification issues become increasingly important for politicians, government agencies and companies.