CDC LAW ATTORNEYS AND TECHNOLOGY LAW SPECIALISTSThe Fourth Industrial Revolution is casting the world into a digital age and transforming every aspect of our lives from the way we work, interact and consume. We have created CDC Law as a specialized practice incorporating all aspects of technology and its relationship to law. The First Industrial Revolution used steam to mechanize production. The Second used electricity to create mass production and the Third IT to automate production. A Fourth Industrial Revolution is building on the Third and digitizing production, characterized by a fusion of technologies and convergence of the built world, digital, and biological spheres. In its scale, scope and complexity the transformation is unlike anything humankind has experienced before. The speed of current breakthroughs has no precedent. When compared with previous industrial revolutions, the Fourth is evolving at an exponential rather than a linear pace and disrupting every industry in every country. How has technology impacted on your life?Technology has made possible new products and services that increase the efficiency and pleasure of our personal lives as well as opened up a host of new opportunities. Who works, the nature of work and where work takes place is changing rapidly with hundreds of millions of jobs at risk. Ordering a cab, arranging accommodation, buying a product, making a payment, watching a film, any of these can now be done remotely across the planet. Concomitantly new threats have become a reality - cyber attacks, privacy issues and data security have suddenly risen to the fore in a world struggling to recalibrate itself. What will the future hold? Exponential acceleration in the rate of innovation and the velocity of disruption are hard to comprehend or anticipate with these drivers constituting a source of constant surprise, even for the best connected and most well informed. Industries are seeing the introduction of technologies that create entirely new ways of serving existing needs and significantly disrupting existing value chains. Disruption is created by agile innovators who, through the development of global digital platforms can oust established incumbents faster than ever by improving the quality, speed and price at which value is delivered.Increased transparency, customer engagement, and new patterns of consumer behavior driven by access to mobile networks and data is forcing companies to adapt. The possibilities of billions of people connected by mobile devices, with unprecedented processing power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge, are unlimited. And these possibilities will be multiplied by emerging technology breakthroughs in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials science, energy storage, and quantum computing.Are you prepared? The rate of change is accelerating exponentially with old barriers broken down and new ones created. Limitless opportunities are matched with a host of new challenges. The legal ramifications are enormous with both regulatory frameworks and commerce struggling to keep pace. We don't profess to know all the answers - nobody does - yet we will ensure that you are provided with solutions at the point where technology, business and law converge to keep you adapting and thriving - digitally.