Since 2015, when the United Nations established a set of shared goals and targets for achieving sustainable development around the world, the development community has been excited, energized but also a little bit wary. While the ambition contained within the Global Goals is high, the challenge is vast. What is more, we face a moving target. In particular, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by rapid technological advances, has the potential to change everything and, while there will undoubtedly be new growth, benefits and new opportunities, the impact on the world’s poorest could be disastrous. The already demanding targets we have set for ourselves will become even harder to achieve.