Shocking headline stories yesterday here in Mesa about child abuse/sex trafficking and a gunman pointing a rifle out of a hotel window? or Trump and Palin [what a pair, huh?] attracting viewers like flies to cow-shit? ...
You might have missed what's happening in Davos Switzerland at the World Economic Forum, the annual meeting of business and political leaders.
If those people are all too much to wrap your heads around, there are celebrities speaking also.
Here's some context - that most mass media don't provide - As with the three industrial revolutions that came before, this is about more than fancy new technology. The Spinning Jenny of the first industrial revolution didn’t just make it faster and easier to produce textile products – it fundamentally altered the Western world’s social landscape, from one dominated by small, rural craftsmen to one of factory workers and machine manufacture.
The third industrial revolution wasn’t just about personal computers and mobile phones – research shows it increased the amount of time children spent studying and professionals spent working, breaking down the age-old barrier between public and private life.
Similarly, the fourth industrial revolution will transform everything from how we learn, work, live and socialize, to the way we see the world and our role in it. What distinguishes this revolution from those of the past is its scale and speed. With previous industrial revolutions, change came slowly, sometimes leaving entire countries and continents unaffected. Not this time.
THIS IS NOT A FAST-READ OR A QUICK-JAB > readers will hopefully choose to interact with this page to access and process more information in some links provided.
One of the links provided is to the blog that announced yesterday at Davos what Microsoft is doing. [Hey! Satya Nadella, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer blogs ]
Today Microsoft Philanthropies, the recently-announced expansion of our commitment to global giving, is making a big statement. We will donate $1 billion in cloud computing resources over the next 3 years to 70,000 non-profits and NGOs worldwide.
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
20-23 January 2016 Davos-Klosters, Switzerland
Live Speakers
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