1.1 Creative Industries 4.0
Industry 4.0, thought to be the "Fourth Industrial Revolution", refers to the increased digitisation and automation of various manufacturing and service industries. In the first lesson, the main focus was on how the creative industry both contributes towards and is affected by Industry 4.0. In the readings, a recurring theme is the idea that the role of creativity in future careers will become more prominent with the advent of increased automation of labour (Holman, 2018). However, "creativity" in this context does not strictly refer to the ability to create artistic works, but the skill to think outside the box when it comes to solving complex issues. Other important skills, besides coding, are ethics and philosophy. This is because future programmers will need to make ethical decisions on what choices automated machines will make, especially when it relates to how they act when human lives are at stake (Wan, 2018). The creative industry is also predicted to ch...