Michael Nevradakis
As part of the World Government Summit (WGS) last week in Dubai, conference organizers presented the “Government in 2071” initiative — a roadmap for governments to interact with “citizens and stakeholders” in a dramatically shifting future impacted by automation, robotics and climate change.
Convened from Feb. 13-15 under the slogan “Shaping Future Governments,” the WGS brought together key global gures to discuss the future of the world in a format similar to that of the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting.
While Elon Musk and Klaus Schwab — who offered competing visions of the future at the event — dominated media coverage, the WGS has issued its own set of dystopian predictions for the future in its “Government in 2071: Guidebook.”
The guidebook predicts that catastrophic climate change, mass migration, mass layo s due to automation, ensuing social unrest, and the merging of humans and technology will de ne the next 50 years.
