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Inevitability Culture
Chioma Phillips
he determined 'advanc- table, not for everyone, and taxes completely. Others describe it as:
es' that society makes have been proven by many to be as “ongoing automation of traditional
always come cloaked un-inevitable as death. manufacturing and industrial prac-
Tin the lie of inevitabil- The purveyors of the 4th Indus- tices, using modern smart technol-
ity. What is ‘inevitability’? It is an trial Revolution (4IR) want you to ogy.” (Source: Wikipedia) Or as
outcome that is sure to happen, believe that it is inevitable in the techradar.com benignly explains it,
one that cannot be avoided, evaded sense of Judgment Day. What is the “This primarily focuses on the use
or escaped (dictionary.com). Like 4th Industrial Revolution? Well, it of large-scale M2M [i.e. Machine
Judgment Day. Not like death and is what I fondly refer to as the age to Machine] and Internet of Things
taxes, because death is not inevi- when man took leave of his senses (IoT) deployments to provide the
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