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Acknowledgements

All of us at the World Economic Forum are aware of our responsibility, as

the international organization for public private cooperation, to serve as a
global platform to help define the challenges associated the fourth industrial
revolution and help all stakeholders shape appropriate solutions in a
proactive and comprehensive manner, in collaboration with our partners,

members, and constituents.

For this reason, the theme of the Forum’s Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos-

Klosters is “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. We are committed
to catalysing constructive discussions and partnerships around this topic
across all our challenges, projects and meetings. The Forum’s Annual

Meeting of New Champions in Tianjin, China, in June 2016, will also
provide a critical opportunity for leaders and innovators across research,
technology, commercialization and regulation to meet and exchange ideas
about how to harness the fourth industrial revolution to the greatest possible
benefit of all. For all these activities, I hope this book serves as a primer

and guide, equipping leaders to grapple with the political, social and
economic implications as well as to understand the advances in technology
that create them.

This book would not have been possible without the enthusiastic support
and engagement of all my colleagues at the World Economic Forum. I owe

them immense thanks. I express my particular gratitude to Nicholas Davis,
Thierry Malleret and Mel Rogers who were essential partners throughout
the research and writing process. I am also thankful to my colleagues and all
the teams who contributed to specific sections of the book, particularly

Jennifer Blanke, Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, Silvia Magnoni and Saadia
Zahidi on economics and society; Jim Hagemann Snabe, Mark Spelman and
Bruce Weinelt on business and industry; Dominic Waughray on the
environment; Helena Leurent on governments; Espen Barth Eide and Anja

Kaspersen on geopolitics and international security; and Olivier Oullier on
neurotechnology.

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