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Alexander Chesalov

Doctor of Engineering Sciences,

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Specialist in the field of information technology and artificial intelligence since 1991.

Good afternoon, dear friends and colleagues!

Let me introduce you to my new book, «The Fourth Industrial Revolution Glossarium: over 1500 of the hottest terms you will use to create the future».

This is my new book, which combines the experience of the last five years in compiling concise dictionaries on the topics of the information technology, the artificial intelligence, the digital economy, the digital health, the Internet of things and, of course, my favorite topic – the fourth industrial revolution.

This story began in 2019, when I spoke at the world famous international conference TEDx with the report «The Fourth Industrial Revolution: through hardships to the stars».

TEDx ForestersPark 2019

Today, we are increasingly encountering such terms as: «fourth industrial revolution», «information society», «knowledge society», «digitalization» and «digital economy», «Internet of things» and «industrial Internet of things», «Internet of Value», «digital ecosystem», «robotics» and «artificial intelligence», and many others. And very often we do not understand what it is and cannot, for various reasons, understand the essence of modern «digital» processes that are happening to us and in the world around us.1

I will give a simple example.

In this book, the «global information society» or «digital society of the future» is defined as a new global knowledge society that exists and interacts, and is also closely integrated into a fundamentally and qualitatively new «digital» social, economic and cultural ecosystem in which a free exchange of information and knowledge between people, using artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality, which are auxiliary interfaces for the interaction of people and machines, computers, robots, wearable and mobile devices, etc.

Germany. Hanover. International IT Exhibition CeBIT 2007

The global information society is a society of the future also because its development is based on intellect, information and knowledge, which are a catalyst for the emergence and development of new social, economic and including information technologies, which in turn transform both the information society itself, and the reality around us on the principle of a feedback system.

One example of the globalization of the information society and its gradual transformation is the widespread use in all areas of activity around the world of the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution. Robotics and artificial intelligence, new computing technologies and big data, digital platforms and ecosystems, new nano- and biotechnologies, and so on, they all unite all people around the world and are a catalyst for the «digital transformation» of modern society.

Germany. Hanover. International IT Exhibition CeBIT 2012

It is important to note that in the coming decades, the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution will radically change the way we perceive the world around us. They will change approaches to the processing and analysis of information, change the way people interact, change the processes of production of products and services, and, ultimately, form our new value systems. Humanity will have an understanding not only that information and big data are a value, but there will also be an understanding that they will largely determine the development of modern society. It can be said that right now the so-called «critical mass» of knowledge and technologies is being formed, which will «blow up» the world of technology and science, and change our daily life.

For many years I have been interested in robotics and artificial intelligence. Also, I was very interested in the direction of work – consumer robotics, or in simple terms, I was interested in the direction of creating humanoid robots that could help people, including those with disabilities, in their daily lives.

Kazan. Kazan Federal University 2018

In 2007, robots were imperfect. Software for artificial intelligence systems based on machine learning was in its infancy. The intelligent assistants that we now often encounter when interacting with our smartphones have not yet been. And there is no need to talk about humanoid robots.

With the advent of the new millennium, the fourth industrial revolution changed the usual order of things.

Most of the modern terms of the fourth industrial revolution appeared in the period of the second and third industrial revolutions. I talk about this in detail in my book «Digital Transformation».

In an effort to use everything new, you and I must give ourselves an account of the fact that systems created on the basis of new technologies must first of all serve the interests of humanity, must give people more opportunities, more prospects, freedom and control over their own lives. And this is very important, because a person, sooner or later, will entrust the responsibility of managing and providing for his life to the «product» of his creativity, namely robots and artificial intelligence. And if you even look more broadly, at a number of robotic and automated systems controlled and serviced by hundreds of artificial intelligences, and not by humans.

The fourth industrial revolution is capable of generating any form of social, economic and cultural systems. And I would not like to share the opinion of Elon Musk that: «Artificial Intelligence will sooner or later kill all of us» or the opinion of the British physicist Stephen Hawking about the superiority of artificial intelligence over humanity. I share the view of our future offered by Klaus Martin Schwab in his books.

Innopolis. Innopolis University 2021

I would like to believe that you and I will be able to create such systems that will make our society more «humane», prosperous and allow us to increase the duration of our lives, open new opportunities for useful and interesting activities in a stable and harmoniously developing environment.

It is important to understand that the formation of the model of our future with you and the vital activity systems of our society, based on the use of technologies of the fourth industrial revolution, have not yet been implemented by anyone.

We are at the very beginning of the journey.

Moscow. Russian University of Economics named G.V. Plekhanov. V International Scientific Forum «Step into the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy. Techno-economics: transformation of platforms 2023

And, therefore, the question is how will our life with you change at the moment when the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution work in full force, what place will we occupy in this world, and most importantly – what role will be assigned to high technologies and results based on these technologies, depends exclusively on you and me!

What kind of book is this?

This is, first of all, an information guide that will help you or any other person, or a specialist from any industry, quickly enough to orientate yourself in the whole variety of new terms and definitions of the fourth industrial revolution.

The book is aimed not only at specialists working in the field of information technologies. The book is written for everyone who is interested in our future with you in the period of digital transformations of the fourth industrial revolution.

Why is the book called a «glossary»?

«Glossarium» in Latin means a dictionary of highly specialized terms.

My first experience in this area was in the compilation of a glossary on artificial intelligence and information technologies, which I published in December 2021. It originally contained only 400 terms. Then, already in 2022, I significantly expanded it to more than 1,000 relevant terms and definitions.2

In 2022, in a team with two co-authors (with whom in 2021 I worked on the development of the Program of the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University), the «Glossary of artificial intelligence: 2,500 terms» was prepared and published3. As it becomes clear from the title of the book, it already contains more than 2,500 terms and is defined in the direction of «artificial intelligence» in Russian and English. The first edition of this book was presented to a wide range of readers at the 35th Moscow International Book Fair in 2022.

In 2022, I completed another work and published the book «Glossary of digital economy: 1500 terms and definitions», which helped me a lot in my daily work with the analysis of a huge amount of different information, when writing and implementing various IT projects.4

In 2023, the book «Glossary on digital healthcare: 2000 terms and definitions» was published in the third year.5

This book, as I said, combines experience from 2019 and was prepared by me for publication from 2021 to 2023. It contains terms and definitions that are widely used around the world. The book combines not only the best of the above books, but also includes terms and definitions from the topic of the Internet of Things and the fourth industrial revolution in general.

I, as the author-creator, do not claim authorship and uniqueness of the prepared text. The main goal of my work is to give you new and relevant information on the fourth industrial revolution, as well as a «tool» that will help you in your daily work.

The book is a personal project of the author and a completely free document for distribution. You are free to use this book however you like, but a link to the text in this book is required.

The book is published in electronic form, and I continue to work on improving and filling this book with new terms and definitions. I would be grateful for any feedback, suggestions and clarifications. Please send them to aleksander.chesalov@yandex.ru.

You can get to know me and my projects in the digital economy, artificial intelligence and IT systems in detail on my personal website chesalov.com.

This book is my gift to you.

Happy reading and productive work!

Yours, Alexander Chesalov.

03/15/2023. First edition. 1659 terms.