Industry 4.0

4Elements of Foresight and Possible Effects of Conceivable Scenarios

“When politics has become a positive science, the public will have to give publicists the same trust and confidence in the policy that they currently give to astronomers for astronomy, doctors for medicine, etc.” (Comte 1819).

“A society is a group of people who have many similarities with each other produced by imitation or counter-imitation. Because humans imitate themselves a lot, especially when they have neither the modesty to imitate purely and simply, nor the strength to invent” (Tarde 1895).

“We are in the midst of a long and painful process leading to the emergence, in one form or another, of a global society whose probable structure is not yet imaginable” (King, cited in Ramonet 1999). Recent trends, which the reduction of a certain balance of terror during the Cold War has allowed, are reflected in multifaceted phenomena of association on a European scale of a globalization of trade, on the one hand, but also of environmental concerns, the re-emergence of disjunctive forces, disenchantment, irrationality, xenophobia and other fundamentalisms, self-reflection, competition, etc., on the other hand. In short, the future traced by the liberal system is no longer as secure as it used to be, which imposes a look at possible strategies that condition and are also conditioned by digital technology and the concept of Industry 4.0. Indeed, social structures are supplied by new immediate digital information ...