Hacker Noon October 26, 2019
In this week’s article we’re going to continue our exercise in futurism and imagine a world post-4th industrial revolution. Taking Alain Demasio’s ‘regime of the trace’ as a starting point, we’ll take a detour into the era of the ‘deep fake’ before we enter into the age of the ‘deep truth’.
The 4th industrial revolution, as defined by the German economist Klaus Schwab, is not happening tomorrow, it has already begun. In fact, its beginnings coincided almost exactly with the new millennium. And although the term was first used by Schwab in 2015, and then in the eponymous book published in 2016, its impact had already been clearly defined by February 2000 in the National Intelligence Council report: Global Trends...