JETS, THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE GREAT RESET (and......covid19)

[Amity Island]

I heard Prince Charles talking recently about a "Great Reset", a Green Agenda, I had no idea what he meant by it, but as the weeks pass, it's becoming clearer and with Rishi Sunaks latest announcment today on the great retraining of the soon to be mass unemployed (caused by the lockdowns) it seems we are about to enter the next phase, the "Fourth Industrial Revolution".

What it the Fourth Industrial Revolution?

In today's D.M, these two quote gives just a hint...

During his speech yesterday Mr Sunak also welcomed a decision by green firm Octopus Energy to take on 1,000 staff. The company's plans include a new technology, data science and artificial intelligence centre based in Manchester.

The Chancellor said: 'More green jobs is not only good news for British job-seekers – it's a vote of confidence in the UK economy as it recovers, and pivotal to our collective efforts to build a greener, cleaner planet.'

Rishi Sunak dishes up £238m back-to-work jobs scheme for unemployed

Rishi Sunak will today launch a £238m back-to-work jobs scheme. The new programme, called JETS, will assist hundreds of thousands of people who lost work as a result of the pandemic.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Here's a few links about the new phase...

Documentary | The Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic Forum

Regulation for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

www.gov.uk

The Great Reset

www.imf.org

If anyone has any info, explanations or understanding on this please feel free to add to the thread, I think we are all fairly new to this?

 

[Docb]

Most of what Charles Windsor comes out with only makes sense if you are rich and privileged. Sounds good but it has generally all the intellectual depth and technical nous that you might expect from somebody who struggled to get a third class degree in ancient history.

Technical development might appear to be proactive but it isn't, it is reactive. There is a need. Somebody finds a solution. The need has to be real and obvious and desperate. Until that happens the noises made by academics and the rich are just so much hot air.

 

[Amity Island]

Most of what Charles Windsor comes out with only makes sense if you are rich and privileged. Sounds good but it has generally all the intellectual depth and technical nous that you might expect from somebody who struggled to get a third class degree in ancient history.

Technical development might appear to be proactive but it isn't, it is reactive. There is a need. Somebody finds a solution. The need has to be real and obvious and desperate. Until that happens the noises made by academics and the rich are just so much hot air.

Doc B,

Funny you should mention that about those who get lots of air-time and have significant influence on society, yet didn't do as well as one would imagine. A few that spring to mind, Carol Vorderman 3rd in engineering, Bear Grylls 2:2 in spanish, Hugh Laurie 3rd in archaeology, David Dimbleby 3rd in politics, Christopher Hitchen 3rd in Politics, J.K Rowling 2:2 in french, Jo Whiley 2:2 in languages. We've also got those with criminal records doing alright too! Gino D'Campo served 2 years for burglary (nicking the singer Paul Young's guitars), Stephen Fry 3 months for credit card fraud, David Dickinson 4 years for mail fraud.
I'm sure there are many more one could add, with some cursory searching....

Regarding the fourth industrial revolution, I couldn't agree more, things normally develop due to reactive changes, rarely do we see changes proactively. However, they do seem to have a huge following of the wealthy and very influential at DAVOS and covid19 is the mantra being dished out at the moment as the crisis that is driving the fourth industrial revolution.

 

[Docb]

Slurry is far better than cowpats and easier to collect and process. I know somewhere that has 1,000,000 litres of the stuff if you want to experiment.

On a slightly more serious note, I once suggested a scheme whereby you could anaerobically process the slurry to produce ammonia and then use the ammonia to run a fuel cell - yes, they work on ammonia really rather well. The electricity could then be used to power the farm. Very green because otherwise the slurry produces methane which is discharged to the atmosphere and is a powerful greenhouse gas. Got nowhere. Far easier to get electricity from the grid.

As I say you only get technological advance when there is a desperate need. For example, I have heard it said that it was the desperate need to reduce the quantity of horse manure piling up in the streets which gave the impetus for development of the internal combustion engine.

 

[Amity Island]

I have heard it said that it was the desperate need to reduce the quantity of horse manure piling up in the streets which gave the impetus for development of the internal combustion engine.

Never new that DocB, it's got me thinking though, is there any other good examples of similar inventions? hmmm...
And regarding how change only only comes about as a response for the need for something else for example Dry Stone walls were only built to clear the farm land of rocks to enable them to be ploughed etc otherwise the stones would be still there to this day if man hadn't needed the land for growing crops. They didn't have the forsight to just one day decide to clear the fields of rocks so that one day in the future, we might need these fields. It's all reactive.

This apparently (so they say) is the reason for the fourth industrial revolution, as a result of the effects of lockdowns on the economy and business and now leaving people without the old jobs pre lockdown, thus a new plan for new types of jobs in artficial intelligence and robots (spurred on a few years early by lockdowns).