The UN better try to convince rich countries to outright shift capital to poorer countries, but that ain't gonna happen in my lifetime. An example of the UN utter unusefulness! No level of education can withstand the digital shock. Well, the UN still fosters investment in education in the third world countries. You can not fight a drone with a machete! The article talks about the post WWII institutions. Enslaved countries 2.0 will become mines were wealth will be extracted by external countries and no benefit will be offered to the locals, which will ultimately enter a demographic collapse. Richer countries will need arable land and water/commodities and little workforce, not even cheap labor since robots will do it for no pay. Not a shot fired and billions of people will be enslaved by other countries superior technological reach. Countries with no resources to invest in the digital era will sink in a dark age and will be subject to a massive round of colonization 2.0 by digitally empowered countries. Countries spending big will lead, inevitably. The digital revolution is different in that regard, since it needs a huge amount of capex to create the necessary infrastructure to retrieve maximum profits from it. But wheels were relatively easy to produce manually, once spotted. Think back at that old age, communities with wheels leapfrogged over communities with no wheels. In terms of human progress, the digital revolution is second in History only to the invention of the wheel, the greatest invention ever for mankind. If we wait or rely on quick fixes to repair the deficiencies of outdated systems, the forces of change will naturally bypass these systems and develop their own momentum and rules. Instead, we need to redesign them so that we can capitalize on the abundance of new opportunities that await us, while avoiding the kind of disruptions that we are witnessing today. Since first conceptualizing the idea for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in 2016, I have been clear: tinkering with our existing processes and institutions simply will not do. The first thing to recognize is that we are living through the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in which businesses, economies, societies, and politics are being fundamentally transformed. And by understanding this change, we can positively influence its outcome. We are experiencing a fundamental change in how individuals and societies relate to each other. This time, however, the challenge is not just geopolitical and economic. After World War II, the international community came together to design a set of institutional structures that facilitated collaboration in pursuit of a shared future. GENEVA – If the “Great Disruption” of 2018 is to be overcome, the world will need a new framework for global cooperation.
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