Overview
- Provides a balanced and global introduction to the digital revolution, through key cases studies across the US, Europe and Asia
- Highlights how transformative technologies from the steam engine to artificial intelligence continue to radically affect key areas of human life
- Comes with a Q&A testbank and practical guidance on the key skills required to succeed in the 21st century workplace
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Section on Industrial Revolution 4.0, Tech Giants, and Digitized Societies
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Section on Specific Case Studies
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About this book
Industry 4.0 explores the emergence of disruptive digital technologies such as robotics, blockchain, nanotechnology and 3D printing and their impact on human lives and jobs in globalized 21st century societies. Incorporating a cutting edge area studies perspective, it considers the challenges and long term implications of the rise of ‘Tech Giants’ such as Alibaba, Google and Baidu through the lens of past industrial revolutions, looking back at the transformative technologies and industrial developments - the steam engine, electrification, telegraph, mass production, and the rise of digital technology - upon which the modern world was built. It investigates the mirror profiles of the world’s largest tech companies in the US and China (Baidu and Google, Alibaba and Amazon, Wechat and Facebook) and provides a unique comparison of Tech Giants with 19th century colonial empires and monopolistic trading companies in terms of political-economic dominance. A key tool for instructors and students focused on courses on Technological History, Digital Technology and Cultures, New Media, Digital Ethics and China studies, this book provides practical guidance on how readers can equip themselves to face key workplace and societal challenges in a virtually interconnected world shaped by Tech Giant monopoly.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Industrial Revolution 4.0, Tech Giants, and Digitized Societies
Authors: Tai Wei Lim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7470-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7469-2Published: 26 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7470-8Published: 10 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 201
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Work, Social History, Technology and Digital Education, Area Studies, Career Skills