WEF explores impact of future technologies

The 2019 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum sent a strong message that new technologies will be game changers amid Globalization 4.0 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Many presentations during the forum, held from Jan 22 to 25 in Davos, Switzerland, focused on the impact of new technologies including artificial intelligence, and the impact on everything from jobs and society to wealth gaps.

"We want to be future-oriented, and not just absorbed by crisis management," WEF Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab said in his opening remarks on Tuesday after a video presentation showing the polarities of globalization, from megacities to refugee camps, and classrooms to outer space.