Hype, Profit, Labor, and Agency in the Shadows of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

This post is by Lilly Irani, Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego.

Prophecy and Politics, or What are the Uses of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”?

This post is by Lee Vinsel, an assistant professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech.

Technology and Employment: Pin making and the first industrial revolution’s long tail

Race, Necropolitics, and the Human in an Age of Intelligent Machines

This post is by Sylvester A. Johnson, Professor and Director of the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech.

The 4th IR, Humanoid Robots, and the Politics of Labor Concealment in Japan

Brief Reflections on the 4th Industrial Revolution and the Future of Technological Progress

This post is by Joel Mokyr, the Robert H. Strotz Professor of Economics at Northwestern University

The Fourth Industrial Revolution as an ‘Infrastructural Slogan’ in South Korea

The Financialization of Innovation in the 21st Century

This post is by Margaret B. W. Graham, professor (retired), Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

A much under-represented topic in the conversation about the emerging 4th Industrial Revolution is…

Digital Migrants, Virtual Reality, and Machine Learning

This post is by Louis Hyman, an associate professor of economic history and director of the Institute for Workplace Studies at Cornell University and author of the recent book, Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the…