Africa should follow fourth industrial revolution quickly to shape the fifth
Continent will be well poised to create the ensuing disruption in future, and that version of economic insurrection may not be industrial at all
President Cyril Ramaphosa recently formed the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). It is essential that Africa now has the opportunity to be a fast follower as it attempts to catch up with global trends, and a first mover as it shapes the fifth industrial revolution.
The fourth industrial revolution holds many challenges for the future of Africa, not least because this fourth in a series of global industrial insurgencies was, like all its predecessors, not out of Africa, but from outside of Africa. In a time yet to come, Africa will be well poised to create the ensuing revolution, and that version of economic insurrection may not be industrial at all...
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