The Next Digital Revolution in Industry: the FIWARE Perspective - FIWARE

Digitalization is not merely an evolutionary transformation, it will bring disruption to the very heart of established business models, changing the way goods are produced and how the value of services is perceived. New technology and information driven economic model will emerge, bringing as deep a change as did the advent of electrical power in the 19th century. Since the advent of the foundational technology driving forces of Social Media, Mobile Communications, Analytics and Cloud, it has taken less than 10 years for digitalization to become a worldwide, cross-generation, collaborative, contextual and data intensive phenomenon – And there is no sign of any slow-down in its reach or impact. We refer to this current wave of disruptive transformation as "The Third Digital Revolution" – Ascent Journey 2018: the 3rd digital revolution: Agility and Fragility- Report from Atos Scientific Community. January 2015 – although there are parallel revolutions both in the way that we represent / use information and in the computing technology that we use to process it.