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Appendix:

Deep Shift

In the fourth industrial revolution, digital connectivity enabled by software technologies is
fundamentally changing society. The scale of the impact and the speed of the changes taking place
have made the transformation that is playing out so different from any other industrial revolution in
human history.
The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software and Society
conducted a survey of 800 executives to gauge when business leaders anticipate that these game-
changing technologies would break into the public domain to a significant degree, and to understand
fully the implications of these shifts to individuals, organizations, government and society.
The survey report Deep Shift – Technology Tipping Points and Social Impact was published in
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September 2015. Reproduced below are 21 technology shifts presented in the study and two
additional ones, including the tipping points for these technologies and the dates of their expected
arrival to market.

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