Gwynne Dyer   JORDAN TIMES

“I can’t wait to see how the incoming administration deals with AI,” said US Secretary of State John Kerry in a less-than-gracious reference to the fact that the Trump team has not got a clue about the real driving force in the changing world economy.

What was striking was that Kerry did not have to clarify his remark for the 2,000 “global leaders” — politicians, bureaucrats, business representatives and public intellectuals — who are in the Swiss alpine town of Davos for the annual World Economic Forum. They all know what he is talking about.

This year’s Davos gathering is actually focused on the rise of populism and simple-minded attacks on globalisation (Donald Trump, Brexit, et al). 

That is only to be expected, since the world’s ultra-rich are potentially threatened by that sort of thing.

But they did not get rich by being stupid, and they have a fairly sophisticated analysis of what is causing it.

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