Big Data and the Prospects of Historical Research - A study of research in modern and contemporary Korean history -

Abstract

At some point in Korean history, the term “Fourth Industrial Revolution” has become a word describing an age that will soon begin or has already begun. Klaus Schwab stated that “a ubiquitous and mobile internet, small powerful cheap sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning” are distinguishing characteristics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 1 and as such the key to this revolution is a historic development in information technology (IT) and digital revolution. The term “Fourth Industrial Revolution” is not a newly coined term. It was used to describe the emergence of electronic engineering in 1955, the computer age in the 1970s, and the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in 1984. The same term was also used to discuss nanotechnology in the 1990s. 2 “The Fourth Industrial Revolu-