of science and fiction in the ‘Singularity’. Others argue we are about to enter a “Fourth Industrial Revolution”: an era heralding the gradual fusion of digital, physical, and biological worlds (Schwab 2016). For many philosophers and theor…that we arrive at the point of raising the question how to make the One into something that holds up, that is, that is counted without being. Mathematization alone reaches a real [...] a real that has nothing to do with what traditional kno…
Klaus Schwab
economist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Klaus Schwab is the founder of the World Economic Forum best known for popularizing the concept of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution," which frames the convergence of digital, physical, and biological systems as a defining epochal shift. In the course readings, his framework appears as one influential periodization of technological disruption alongside other visions of transformative change, anchoring debates about whether we're entering a qualitatively new phase of human-machine integration or simply extending existing trajectories of automation and datafication.
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