The Fourth Industrial Revolution

Schwab is the leader of the technocratic takeover of everything. If you don't know what the 4thIR is, you will be shocked, scared possibly. If you are following the takeover, well, at least you'll have a fuller idea of the coming dangers to freedom and individuality. Transhumanism is the agenda of the 4thIR! Read this book.

It really just touches superficially on what you would expect from a Davos crowd. Anyone who has an interest in the future can see right through what he’s trying to convey - all surface level information that makes one sound half smart but when questioned would have no real depth to the answers. Speed and scale by John doerr was much more informative and seemed more researched than just reading the Gartner curve and writing a book about it. Overall not satisfied with this book, I had expected much more. Makes me never want to go to Davos that’s for sure!

It's rewarding to review the thoughts of Herr Schwab, the personality leading the Davos Forum. It's normal to see that these thoughts are balanced, explaining trends and their pros and cons. It's encouraging to have a clear picture of tendencies that will reform/revolutionize the social, individual, economic fabrics based on an INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION which is already here and developing extremely fast. I was expecting to see how this REVOLUTION will face the climate change, the billions of people that need food, the political and cultural decline. Descriptive thoughts are useful, commitment lines in order to avoid catastrophes are what is missing.

Schwab is what I call a steady state man, he does not see or mention the dangers of a credit collapse.

To understand the present and consider the near future: A good summary of recent thinking, in clearly defined chapters.