Государственное управление. Электронный вестник

Государственное управление. Электронный вестник 
Выпуск № 60. Февраль 2017 г. 
© Факультет государственного управления МГУ имени М.В.Ломоносова, 2017 
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Yudina M.A. 
Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges 
Maria A. Yudina
— graduate student, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow 
State University, Moscow, Russian Federation. 
E-mail: 
YudinaMA91@gmail.com
 
Annotation 
The article is devoted to the concept of the fourth industrial revolution and its place in 
sociological discussion about the modern society. The basics of “Industry 4.0” are: 
interoperability, virtualization, decentralization and real-time work. Cyber-physical systems, 
cloud computing and big data, the Internet of things becoming more and more popular in 
business, along with vertical and horizontal integration, virtualization and digitalization of the 
whole value chain production. 
Many developed countries and the business leaders are active participants in the fourth 
industrial revolution: there are state programs, commercial enterprises and non-profit 
organizations, which have one main goal: the elimination of all barriers to the creation of 
“Industry 4.0”. But in its quest to maximize profits, to be the first on the market with the latest 
technological solutions, corporations as well as the governments tend to underestimate the 
possible negative social consequences of the new stage of technical progress. Displacement of 
humans by robots and programs in production process, inflation of diplomas, the general 
decline of human values and fundamental changes in the understanding of human nature 
itself — that is only an incomplete list of problems provoked by the coming fourth revolution. 
The paper shows the need to predict the social consequences of the introduction of new 
technologies for risk management, a competent expert response to modern challenges and for 
coordinated work of the society and the state for the benefit of man in the rapidly 
cyberneticizing world. 
Keywords 
Industry 4.0, the Fourth industrial revolution, information and communication technologies, 
biotechnology revolution, network, information society, social challenges, technological risks, 
anthropogenic 
risks, 
cyber-physical 
systems, 
artificial 
intelligence, 
virtualization, 
objectualization, objectionism. 
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