Fourth industrial revolution and rural development: a catalyst connect between rural and urban development

SOURCE: Culture and rural-urban revitalisation in South Africa
OUTPUT TYPE: Chapter in Monograph
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2021
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Kanyane
SOURCE EDITOR(S): M.Sirayi, M.Kanyane, G.Verdini
KEYWORDS: FORTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR), RURAL DEVELOPMENT, URBAN DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT: Developmental, Capable and Ethical State (DCES)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 12070
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/16259
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/16259

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Abstract

Advances in technology have opened our minds to new possibilities and breakthroughs. It is in light of this that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4iR) and rural development must be linked to livelihoods of how our world will be in the not so distant future. Are our rural areas ready to embrace the 4iR in the same way as the urban areas? In the eve of the COVID-19, a coronavirus pandemic, which has taken the world by storm, there is dramatic shift in the way we live ??? a shift to technological connectivity to interact with each other through social distancing which came with 4iR inventions.