Commentary
It’s now 50 years since Klaus Martin Schwab, a mechanical engineer and founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), launched the first-ever Davos Manifesto, a call to leaders to imagine a better world, one where all humans, the rich and the poor, lived in complete and utter harmony. However, as many readers are all too aware, all utopias are, in fact, dystopias. Fast forward five decades, and Schwab, now a multimillionaire, is intent on making his dystopian vision a global reality.