Through electrical power, the 2nd commercial mass production was introduced. Electronic devices and details innovations automated the production procedure in the third commercial revolution. In the 4th commercial revolution the lines in between "physical, digital and biological spheres" have actually ended up being blurred and this current revolution, which began with the digital transformation in the mid-1900s, is "identified by a combination of innovations." This combination of technologies consisted of "fields such as synthetic intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous automobiles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, products science, energy storage and quantum computing." Prior to the 2016 yearly WEF meeting of the Worldwide Future Councils, Ida Aukena Danish MP, who was also a young international leader and a member of the Council on Cities and Urbanization, submitted an article that was later on released by thinking of how technology might improve our lives by 2030 if the United Nations sustainable development objectives (SDG) were understood through this fusion of innovations.
Considering that everything was totally free, including tidy energy, there was no need to own items or property. In her pictured situation, a number of the crises of the early 21st century "lifestyle illness, environment change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely crowded cities, water contamination, air pollution, social discontent and joblessness" were fixed through brand-new technologies. The post has been criticized as representing a paradise at the rate of a loss of privacy. In action, Auken said that it was intended to "begin a conversation about some of the benefits and drawbacks of the current technological development." While the "interest in Fourth Industrial Transformation technologies" had actually "spiked" during the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer than 9% of companies were utilizing artificial intelligence, robotics, touch screens and other advanced innovations.

On January 28, 2021 Davos Agenda virtual panel discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) will "fundamentally alter the world". 63% of CEOs believe that "AI will have a bigger effect than the Web." Throughout 2020, the Great Reset Discussions led to multi-year tasks, such as the digital change programme where cross-industry stakeholders investigate how the 2020 "dislocative shock" had increased and "sped up digital improvements". Their report stated that, while "digital communities will represent more than $60 trillion in income by 2025", "just 9% of executives [in July 2020] say their leaders have the best digital abilities". Politicians such as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S.