Curious, how Klaus brings up those old notions in the Communist Manifesto of no nations. He doesn’t outright say it, but:
“What will define the roles that countries, regions, and cities play in the fourth industrial revolution?”(71)
That in and of itself is nothing earth shattering, but a little further down he states:
“… one thing is clear and of great importance: the countries and regions that succeed in establishing tomorrow’s preferred international norms in the main categories and fields of the new digital economy … will reap considerable economic and financial benefits.”(71)
Basically, if there are international norms that take precedence, local and national norms don’t, and only those who do this will benefit.
Hmm, something seems a miss here.
I wonder what those norms will be since they aren’t discussed.
One thing is clear: punishment.
“in contrast, countries that promote their own norms and rules… risk becoming isolated from global norms, putting these nations at risk of becoming the laggards of the new digital economy.”
Notice how it’s the countries fault if they don’t adhere to the new global norms?
Basically, you’re either with us or against us.
Given the changes in the way legislation is supposed to be created, it is unlikely any will step out of line.
As long as the technology is available and Internet access is readily available, regardless of where you are, there is no reason for this “digital ID” to not become as pervasive as the clothes on your back.
The wording is very subtle, but when you see everything around you pointing in one direction, doesn’t it make you wonder if you are coming late to the party or does everyone really have no clue what is going on?
Internet access has become so pervasive, many look to it as a must before they even move to a new house.
But when you look at everything happening in this context, doesn’t it make you wonder about things like Starlink?
Is this just another piece of the pie that no one knows what the endgame is?
Again, the benefits are significant, so great, in fact, perhaps no one even looks at the downside.
That’s not to say Elon Musk is clandestinely working for the globalists, but isn’t there anyone looking at these moving pieces and asking what the hell is going on?
Then there is something Klaus calls the “digital deficit” (77).
Again, sounds benign.
It relates to the lack of data certain segments have and the need to increase it so Klaus’ vision can come to fruition.
Once there is an increase in the data that is required, all the good things that will come from it will be provided, but as I have pointed out time and time again, this is not for the good of you and me.
If you think this resembles China’s Social Credit System, you would be correct.
Same for the 2015 World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Cities. It sounds great that cities are finding innovative solutions to their problems but according to Klaus they will be driven:
“… as it is by a global network of smart (network-driven) cities, countries, and regional clusters, which understand and leverage the opportunities of this revolution.”
I guess this relates to you can’t fix what you don’t know, and you can’t know unless you have reports, and you can’t have reports unless you have data, and you can’t have data unless you have a way of obtaining that data.
Very true, but the problem is sometimes you have too much data.
You make the wrong decisions because you are asking the wrong questions.
I’m not against capturing some of this data when it has a purpose, for a limited time, but it seems the data is collected for the sake of collecting it forever.
On page 82 Klaus tells us how the fourth industrial revolution will change the way we work, live and love.
All of it is veiled communism.
Marx told us he wanted to abolish the family and countries and nationalities.
Klaus is saying the same thing only in a veiled way.
He tells us people are more interchangeable because of exposure to:
“ideas from other cultures means that identities are now more fungible than previously.”(82)
that means you’re the same as everyone else, you’re an interchangeable piece in a machine.
Klaus tells us:
“family structures are being redefined… increasingly the traditional family unit is being replaced by the trans-national family network.” (82)
He makes it sound great, doesn’t he?
But I guess this is to be expected when:
“… the fusion of the physical, digital, and biological world will further transcend time/space limitations in such a way as to encourage mobility.”(82)
But how are we going to manage all of this newfound mobility?
Governance, of course.
“One of the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution will therefore be the governance of human mobility to ensure that its benefits are fully realized by aligning sovereign rights and obligations with individual rights and aspirations reconciling national and human security and finding ways to maintain social harmony in the midst of increasing diversity.”(83)
Right. I really don’t think everyone is going to be a plane going everywhere and anywhere to work, It would be great I won’t lie but I really don’t think that is the reality for a majority of people, but I am sure all the rules and laws that will apply to the mobile crowd will apply to those who stay put.
Also, is Klaus telling us he expects these people’s movements to create problems because of diversity?
But aren’t our politicians telling us diversity is our strength? Hmm.
Klaus then tells us that all this technology is great for “greater precision in warfare.”(84)
But you will not need warfare, since there will be no nations and countries.
Again he is showing us all the great things technology will provide to us yet glossing over the entire point of using the technology.
Again, he tells us
“Cyber warfare presents one of the most serious threat of our time.”(84)
He speculates on the who and what of the attack. Sure we’ve seen it, it creates problems, but again, the way to deal with this is more governance?
Why is the solution to always create more policies and laws?
Next he seems to think that defining data is somehow going to determine how it moves across the world.
“Part of the equation to manage this scenario is to define what data travels across borders. This is an indication of how far there is to go on effectively controlling cross-border cyber-based transactions without inhibiting the positive outputs from a more interconnected world.”(85)
I’d love to see how this is going to be managed.
You do not know the amount of data that transverses the world every second.
Data residency laws are effectively moot because unless you can control how data gets to you or the path data takes to a place you send it to, you will be out of compliance.