The fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us. Yet not many students understand its evolution or impacts. This teaching case looks at socio-technical from 1IR (First Revolution) to 4IR (Fourth Revolution). concludes by exemplifying 4IR’s promises and perils with a mini on how that quietly helped the COVID-19 vaccine development can also pose cyberthreats erode privacy.

Green hydrogen is set to become the energy carrier of future, provided that production technologies such as electrolysis and solar water splitting can be scaled global dimensions. Testing these on MW scale requires development dedicated new test facilities for which there no precedent. This perspective highlights challenges met path implementing a facility large-scale electrolysis, photoelectro...

Abstract While the ongoing fourth industrial revolution continues to be a major driver behind wireless communication technologies, some environments are so prohibitive that even state-of-the-art solutions can barely achieve ubiquitous connectivity (if at all). For example, in sites with large metal constructions (such as petrochemical plants), highly localized and time-varying changes link qual...

In the development of a world that is experiencing intensity technological disruption, which has actually broken down boundaries space and time, ceased various developments in order daily life. This confirms need for clear mindset every or dynamic technology industrial era 4.0 like double-edged sword. sense, positive negative impacts. The progress philosophy responds back, is, one way doing mid...

This paper tries to sum up the discussions held during the sessions of GREC’09, as well as at the final panel session. As it is always good to know where you are coming from, the paper briefly takes a look back at the discussions held two years earlier, before looking ahead at the future challenges for our research community. A number of points raised two years ago remain very much valid, but w...