Bodies and Identities during the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Great Reset

Abstract

The fourth industrial revolution raises many ethical, political and educational questions. Several scholars who have analyzed the most significant phenomena connected to the technological transformations in progress have highlighted the consequences they have on economic systems as well as on people’s lives.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, and especially its founder, Klaus Schwab, offer continuous starting points for further analysis, useful also for educational studies. The mutations that new technologies bring to the ideas of ??personal “identity” and “corporeity”, attenuating so far lasting distinctions such as those between “natural” and “artificial”, or between “individual” and “social”, are among the most evident and significant aspects in the field of contemporary culture and education.

The contribution will analyze these transformations and their effects on education starting from the analysis of some of K. Schwab’s works, in the context of pandemic and post-pandemic scenarios and in the light of the so-called great reset proposal.