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This chapter is excerpted from 'Major Business and Technology Trends Shaping the Contemporary World'. The current volume relies on a wide variety of scholarly and professional resources to analyze the nature, causes, and consequences of major business and technology trends of our time. The text is organized in three parts and 11 chapters. The first part examines prospects for energy, commodities, water, food, and healthcare. The second part analyzes leading business transformations such as the sharing economy, Fourth Industrial Revolution, gig economy, and recent developments in the global economy, consumption, labor, employment, and education. The third part focuses on technological innovation and examines various advances in areas such as automation, robotics, data, connectivity, quantum computing, new materials, and energies. This book is a valuable reference for business leaders, managers, students, and all those who are passionate about understanding our rapidly changing world.