The Main Goals of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Renewable Energy Perspectives
Lucreţia Dogaru
Abstract
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, as well as the previous industrial revolutions, has the potential on the one hand, to raise the global income levels and on the other hand, to improve the quality of human life. It will affect and it will have a major impact on business on government and on people lives. From an evolutionary point of view, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is grounded and built on the previous revolution, and because it supports the digital technologies is often called, the Digital Revolution. It can be said that its objective assumed the fusion of technologies that bring the physical world closer to the biological and digital world. In the present paper, starting from a brief presentation of previous Industrial Revolutions, we analyze the challenges and opportunities of technological innovations, of technological progress represented by the artificial intelligence. Although the Fourth Industrial Revolution has the potential to increase the revenue and to raise the living standard of humanity, a great challenge for new information technologies is the preservation of privacy life. Starting from such an aspect, we will try to present not only the benefits of this new revolution but also its possible disadvantages. For example, how the work and private life will be affected. An important attention is given by the Fourth Industrial Revolution to the field of energy, which involves clean and renewable energy. In this context, we will discuss the issues that outline the so-called Energy Revolution, that has begun at the planetary level and which involves a global energy production coming from zero-emission technologies as well as the integration of renewable energy sources into a smart overall network.