A New Disruptive Political World: Are we going to see major global realignments?
This blog has published stories expressing concerns about the emerging disruptive industries and their impact on implementing the SDGs. In particular, raising concerns that this will lead to an increase in inequality and unemployment. Linked to this is the worry that governments were not preparing themselves for what could be considerable change over the coming 15 years nor were they having a conversation with their voters about the changes. You can just see the changes happening daily in so many areas of our life whether it is the driverless cars, the Sophia robots or the 3d printing of houses – these will all mean loss of jobs. One way to prepare for this would be a UN Commission to look at the impact of disruptive industries. But of course, this was before the recent US election. We now have major disruptive forces in our political world as well and soon as they start playing out it will add to changes in our economic world as well. It...