Advertorial: University of Johannesburg
Your future. Reimagined. We’re living through a time of amazing technological change. So amazing in fact, that it’s been called a revolution – the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or 4IR, to be exact. It’s a revolution that is already changing everything from the way we work, the way we create and consume entertainment, to our concepts of privacy, medical practice, functional technologies for the disabled, grocery buying and perhaps, most importantly, the way we teach and learn. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which includes amazing technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT) and data and information. Remote surgery, smart homes, 3-D printing, nanomaterials, energy management and supply, drone capacities – all of this and much more, is the 4IR stuff of which our future is being crafted. So, when you think of your future, you will need to ask these questions: • • • •
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Where do my long-term interests really lie? Why will my career be relevant as technology develops? What kind of environment will I be working in? How can I help shape the world in which I would like to be working and living?
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