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Klaus switches gears and tells us about how in the 4th Industrial Revolution he said that technology and digitization will revolutionize everything. I don’t have an issue with that statement, we’ve already seen situations where technology has revolutionized our way of doing this, etc. I’m just curious how this “technological reset” will work when Klaus told us that by 2050 we need to reach net zero. This, by even the most liberal of view points has to admit this is incompatible with net zero by 2050....

The Micro Reset as Klaus calls it relates to industry and business and will require a long and complex series of changes and adaptation.(173). Klaus make the observation that: “… some industry leaders and senior executive may be tempted to equate reset with restart.” (173) I don’t believe that is an unfair assessment, but I don’t think it should mean delete then restart. Klaus believes returning to normal can’t happen because Covid changed the working landscape forever....

Finally, on page 211 Klaus gets around the individual and what this “great reset” will have in store for us from a personal perspective. We’ve already experienced lockdowns and isolation from families etc., to Klaus “what starts as change may end up as an individual reset” (211) Hopefully, it’s a positive reset but given what we have seen to date, probably not. Klaus tells us about how humanity somehow percolated through the lockdown and negativity Covid-19 had, by providing examples of how in Italy, opera singers would entertain their neighbours among other things....

Klaus reminds us that by June 2020, the world isn’t the same. He’s right and three years later it still isn’t. It is a very correct observation that things won’t go back to a pre-Covid normal from a personal perspective. Other things like: “rising inequalities, a widespread sense of unfairness, deepening geopolitical divides, political polarization, rising public deficits and high levels of debt, ineffective and non-existent global governance, excessive financialisation, environmental degradation: these are some of the major challenges that existed before pandemic....

I have listed the endnotes of this book because I think it’s important to show where Klaus gets his information. As you can see all of them are from main stream media, and educational facilities. The same group of people who generally are members of WEF and/or are invited to Davos. The curious thing about this is, of the 172 references, 113 are from 2020, that is 65.5% of the references are within 6 months of the book being published....

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