Every industrial revolution brings along a learning revolution.
To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.
For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
If we can make computers more intelligent - and I want to be careful of AI hype - and understand the world and the environment better, it can make life so much better for many of us. Just as the Industrial Revolution freed up a lot of humanity from physical drudgery I think AI has the potential to free up humanity from a lot of the mental drudgery.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.
