The Fourth Industrial Revolution - A Review
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution - A Review
Tim O’Connor – Center for the Preservation of Humanity – 8/12/2022
Klaus Schwab’s 2016 effort, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, is a brutal reorganization of the entire world. It portends a world where no one owns anything, it’s all about renting, governments are completely technocratic and intertwined into a global conglomeration, and fascism rules through private-public partnerships and the stakeholder ‘capitalism’ model. I wish I had read this book long ago, because, guess what – we are now living through the transition to this frivolous, unnecessary world.
This book covers a lot of ground in a short time with very broad strokes. It does not really get into minutia. It is all about establishing a totalitarian global government despite the several times where the author notes that caution should be used while transitioning through the fourth industrial revolution. The Forward, page vii, explains the basics of the Fourth Industrial Revolution:
“These rapid advances in technology, however, are doing more than providing us with new capabilities – they are changing the way we live, work, and relate to one another. As Klaus Schwab describes in this timely and insightful book, the convergence of digital technologies with breakthroughs in materials science and biology means that we are seeing the emergence of entirely new ways in which to live. In both subtle and explicit ways, technology is also changing what it means to be human.”
Well – that is less than reassuring. The future sounds pretty crappy to me. Why do we have to change the way we live, work, and relations with people? Why is everything going digital? Why would anyone want to have to confront a world in which we have to reevaluate our own existence and purpose? The short answer is stakeholder capitalism and the general public doesn’t count as a stakeholder in these affairs. We change – the stakeholders get to enslave everyone else.
Jumping to page 68, Schwab displays his rabid general hatred of the truth being revealed and individualism vividly:
“With a few exceptions, policymakers are finding it harder to effect change. They are constrained by rival power centers including the transnational, provincial, local and even the individual. Micro-powers are now capable of constraining macro-powers such as national governments.
“The digital age undermined many of the barriers that used to protect public authority, rendering governments much less efficient or effective as the governed, or the public, became better informed and increasingly demanding in their expectations. The WikiLeaks saga – in which a tiny non-state entity confronted a mammoth state – illustrates the asymmetry of the new power paradigm and the erosion of trust that often comes with it.
“It would take a book dedicated to the subject alone to explore all the multifaceted impacts of the fourth industrial revolution on governments, but the key point is this: Technology will increasingly enable citizens, providing a new way to voice their opinions, coordinate their efforts and possibly circumvent government supervision. I say ‘possibly,’ because the opposite might be true, with new surveillance technologies giving rise to all-too-powerful public authorities.”
The fourth industrial revolution is all about giving governments power. Governments are always stakeholders in all endeavors in all circumstances. It’s odd that governments are always stakeholders in everything. And it is also odd that Schwab makes mention of individuals being able to “circumvent government supervision” and gives the cure to that possibility – increased government surveillance of it’s citizens. In the US this is completely illegal; however, it was already being done, even in 2016, by the NSA, and Schwab suggest that the illegal surveillance increase. It is exactly what has happened and is only become ever more oppressive with the introduction of social credit scores and real-time AI-connected facial recognition systems.
Klaus wraps his book up by stating on page 114 – 115:
“With effective multistakeholder cooperation, I am convinced that the fourth industrial revolution has the potential to address – and possibly solve – the major challenges that the world currently faces.
“In the end, it comes down to people, culture and values. Indeed, we need to work very hard to ensure that all citizens across all cultures, nations and income groups understand the need to master the fourth industrial revolution and its civilizational challenges.
“Let us together shape a future that works for all by putting people first, empowering them and constantly remind ourselves that all of these new technologies are first and foremost tools made by people for people.
“Let us therefore take collective responsibility for a future where innovation and technology are centered on humanity and the need to serve the public interest, and ensure that we employ them to drive us all toward more sustainable development.
“We can go even further. I firmly believe that the new technology age, if shaped in a responsive and responsible way, could catalyze a new cultural renaissance that will enable us to feel part of something much larger than ourselves – a true global civilization. The fourth industrial revolution has the potential to robotize humanity, and thus compromise our traditional sources of meaning – work, community, family, identity. Or we can use the fourth industrial revolution to lift humanity into a new collective and moral consciousness based on a shared sense of destiny. It is incumbent on us all to make sure that the latter is what happens.”
Hitler himself couldn’t have written a better speech to compel Germans to stay within the boundaries of the collective groupthink the Nazi’s had created in the nation. Schwab echoes Hitler’s Final Solution in much more cleaned up language but he is promising the same thing. This plan is not meant for me nor anyone like me. It is diametrically opposed to the Bible’s teachings, the will of God, and the Law of God, and common sense. Schwab is promising the world that we, collectively, can be a slave of a global government enforcing it’s will through a technological totalitarianism.
As I mentioned earlier, I am not a stakeholder in any of this. I am destined to be murdered for my beliefs and rejecting the fourth industrial revolution. The future has no need of Jesus – Schwab replaces Him with a collective moral consciousness. The future has no need of God, the Creator of the Universe – Schwab replaces Him with a shared sense of destiny and morals and purpose. In a nutshell, Schwab has combined three utterly evil ideologies into one. He took fascism, fused it with transhumanism, and overlaid the whole thing with collective, hive mind, humanism. God has given mankind free will, for better or worse, and it is part of our birthright. Everything in The Fourth Industrial Revolution seeks to strip that from every individual on earth. The best part is that no one should be left behind according to Schwab – an honorable and heroic ideal on battlefields in war zones; a bunch of crap when it denies people their free-will to worship a supernatural God.
In the appendix of the book (pages 120 – 172) there are 23 technologies mentioned (titled shifts), 21 of which stakeholders (executives in this case) were asked whether they would meet certain levels of deployment in society by the year 2025. When the book was written, it was 9 years in the future. Today, that time is less than 3 years off. Lets see where they stand.
Shift 1 asks stakeholders if the first implantable cellular phone will be commercially available by 2025. 82% of the respondents thought it would be. There does not seem to be an implantable cell phone available to consumers yet. The closest things out there are Elon Musk’s Nueralink and Synchron’s Stentrobe but neither of these devices are commercially available yet.
In Shift 2, 84% of the executives thought that, by 2025, 80% of people would have a digital presence on the internet. According to Statistia.com, 63% of the global population is online, of which 93% have a social media presence. Overall, the 93% of social media users constitute 58% of the global population – 1.7 billion people shy of the target.
Shift 3 found 86% of the executives thinking 10% of reading glasses would be internet-connected by 2025. I cannot find a reliable statistic about smart reading glasses. The closest I came to finding what I was looking for stated that smart eyeglasses accounted for about $140 million and was though to grow to $20.1 billion. They are out there, however, I could not pin down what percentage of reading glasses are smart glasses.
Shift 4 is similar to Shift 3. In the realm of internet-connected clothing items, 91% of the respondents thought 10% of people would be wearing them by 2025. In 2019 the smart clothing industry was estimated to have brought in $1.6 billion. The global apparel market was $1.582 trillion in 2019. Based on sales, that makes internet connected clothing 0.1% of the apparel market. Projections from the same respective sources suggest that in 2024, $5.3 billion will be dropped on smart clothing in a projected apparel market of $1.855 trillion – making the smart version of clothes almost 0.3% of the market.
Shift 5 looks to a world with 90% of the people connected to the internet, a development 79% of the stakeholders thought would occur by 2025. As noted in Shift 2, 63% of the people in the world are internet connected.
Will 90% of the world have a smartphone by 2025? 81% of the responding stakeholders said they would in Shift 6. In 2020, there were 3.5 billion smartphone users. Between 2020 and 2025, 3.7 billion people will have needed to have gotten a smartphone.
91% of respondents thought 90% of people would have unlimited, free storage in Shift 7. The way it reads to me, there are still only 63% of the people on earth who are online, a far cry from 90%. In 2018, 3.6 billion people used cloud based services. That equates to about 45% of the world and about 71% of internet connected people. They have a ways to go and a short time to get there.
The responding executives to Shift 8, thought that there would be one trillion Internet of Things’ sensors by 2025, 89% of the time. In 2020 there were 35 billion censors and by 2024 that number is projected to hit 83 billion. That’s less than 10% of the total expected.
Shift 9 foresaw a world where 50% of all household internet traffic was for appliances and devices (IoT, maintenance, etc…). 70% of the executives answering though this would be a reality in 2025. Architecture and Design estimated that there are 2.3 billion households in the world. About 800 million devices to make a home ‘smart’ were ordered in 2020. Not all of these devices were ordered by separate households and one device is not generally going to use 50% or more of a household’s internet traffic. Some homes, undoubtedly, are using over 50% of their internet traffic for appliances and devices, but I would venture to say that this is true for less than 10% of the homes today.
Shift 10 was answered affirmatively 64% of the time. It asked if they thought there would be a city with 50,000 people with no traffic lights by 2025. Schwab is envisioning autonomous cars with this one, which are not yet saturating the market. It seems that people don’t really like the idea that someone can tell them they can’t drive themselves to their destination. Technically, there are already cities with no traffic lights (traffic control is conducted manually with officers directing the flow of traffic). Thimphu, Bhutan has a population of 62,500 and zero traffic lights.
Shift 11 found that 83% of respondents thought a government would use big-data to replace it’s census by 2025. There are register-based censuses with take place in Europe – a system which could just use big data to collect and tally; however, no nation currently uses just big data to compile their census.
79% of the stakeholders believed that by 2025 10% of the cars on the road would be ‘driverless’ in the United States in Shift 12. Currently, the only vehicles on US roads which are ‘fully autonomous’ are those doing trials. So, in 2022, the percentage of fully driverless cars is zero. There are some vehicles which can ‘drive’ for periods of time; however, a driver must be responsible for taking over the controls at any time.
By 2025, only 45% of stakeholders thought that an artificial intelligence would be serving as a board member in Shift 13. A Hong Kong venture capital firm, Deep Knowledge Ventures appointed an AI named Vital to it’s board of directors in 2021.
Shift 14 queried the executives about whether or not 30% of corporate audits would be conducted by an AI. 75% of them thought that would be true by 2025. There are few business which use AI to audit their business as yet. The technology exists for it to be done; however, it is not being widely adopted. The number of companies using AI for audits is growing; however, and there is no shortage of articles promoting it’s use in this area.
By 2025, 86% of the executive thought Shift 15 would come true: the first US robotic pharmacist. Walgreens has not quite managed to take pharmacist’s job completely away but they have started using robots to fill some prescriptions. It is plausible that by 2025 there will be no pharmacists in certain pharmacies.
Shift 16: 58% of stakeholders responded that they thought 10% of GDP would be stored on a blockchain by 2025. The 2021 GDP for the world is expected to be about $96.3 trillion dollars. In 2021, the cryptocurrency market was $3 trillion - about 3% of total GDP. This percentage will grow by 2025.
Shift 17 is hard to research. It seeks to have more trips in ride sharing than in private cars globally. 67% of stakeholder thought this would come about by 2025. The ride-sharing market was at about $61 billion as of March 2022. Around 70 million personal automobiles were to be sold in 2021. The average new car in the US costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $44,000 in the US. Globally, lets put the cost of a new car at $10,000, though and we come to a total spent in 2021 at about $700 billion. Some of these cars may be used for ride sharing but I would not speculate that $350 billion was used to fund vehicles to drive for a ride sharing company.
Taxes collected via blockchain? Shift 18 found that by 2025, 73% of executives thought this would occur. In February of 2021 the Canton of Zug in Switzerland began accepting Bitcoin and Etherium as tax payments. Ukraine and El-Salvador have made certain cryptocurrencies legal tender which should allow citizens to pay their taxes in those mediums.
84% of executives responding thought the first 3D-printed car would be in production by 2025 in Shift 19. The LSEV by Italian startup XEV and Chinese 3D printing specialists Polymaker. It began being produced in 2018. The YOYO, XEV’s newest offering, has a top speed of under 50 mph, is electric, is tiny (8.2 feet from bumper to bumper), weighs under 1,000 pounds, and is ugly as sin.
Shift 20 probed the stakeholders as to whether or not the first 3D printed liver would be transplanted. 76% of them believed it would occur by 2025. Design News reported that a lived was successfully 3D printed on April 14, 2022. To date it does not seem that there are any clinical trials being conducted. This could change at any point in time, anywhere in the world, should one of these sick-o ‘doctors’ gain approval from a psychopathic regulatory agency.
Shift 21 is the last one asked to stakeholders (executives). 81% of the respondents thought that by 2025, 5% of all consumer products would be 3D printed by 2025. $18.18 trillion was spent on consumer goods in 2021. $10.37 billion was reported as the size of the 3D printed materials market in 2019 and it is expected to rise to $28.99 billion in 2025. At $18 trillion, the 3D printed number would need to be $360 billion. The actual number of items being 5% would be quite a disgusting achievement to track due to the sheer amount of surveillance which would be needed to accomplish it.
Shift 22 has already occurred. The first human who had a deliberately altered genome was born in China in 2018. The monster who did this, He Jiankui was sentenced to prison for 3 years for doing this. It is a disgusting idea with horrific implications.
Shift 23 involves enhancing humans with completely artificial memory. It has been done in animal experimentation. Memory is claimed to exist in human form within artificial intelligence. It does not appear that this has occurred in humans, yet, but researchers are getting closer. The only reason this would ever be done is for societal brainwashing. Again, the very idea that this would be a good thing is horrific.
These goals may or may not be achieved by 2025. It brings me no joy to realize that CoVID-19, the shots that rolled out to counter CoVID-19, and the Great Reset are steps towards achieving these goals. Everything the World Economic Forum (which Klaus Schwab is the founder and executive chairman of) does is to make this fourth industrial revolution Hell on earth a reality for all of us.
The answer is the Great Awakening. Step one of the Great Awakening is to understand that people like Klaus Schwab are serious about their desire to murder, maim, marginalize, and destroy any opposition to creating his version of utopia. Step two is to realize that God is completely real, the Bible is absolutely true, and all of that is going to come to pass.
To sum up The Fourth Industrial Revolution – Schwab lays out his steps to arriving at global government, the destruction of individual free-will, the criminalization of displays of free-will. Basically Schwab wants to enslave all of humanity under a global totalitarianism. He hinted at the possibilities of this becoming a reality in 2016. Six years later we are very near to that reality.