The elections are all over bar the shouting, Parliament has been sworn in and the president wants to build a futuristic utopia of gleaming skyscrapers, bullet trains and flying cars (well, two of the three, anyway). Every politician worth their salt knows that a major speech must include the phrase ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, because that’s what it’s all about, right?

As is so often the case, there’s a considerable distance between the vision and the reality on the ground. In order to try to gauge how big that gap is – and what the private sector can offer to fill it – Brainstorm convened a roundtable of expert technologists and business leaders. Together, they discussed the real state of the nation when it comes to emerging technologies, and how we can work together to deliver the dream.