Chapter 6The Digital Revolution and Climate Change
Whether you like it or not we are now in a digitally interconnected world.
—Barak Obama
6.1 Introduction
Nicholas Negroponte (1995) predicted over three decades ago: ‘Like a force of nature the digital age cannot be denied or stopped. It has four very powerful qualities that will result in ultimate triumph: decentralizing, globalizing, harmonizing and empowering’. The digital revolution is definitely here to stay, and we can safely say that each generation will become more digitally competent than the preceding one. It is reinventing business models, reshaping economic sectors as well as changing societal infrastructures. Big data and artificial intelligence (AI) ...
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