
WORLD - Catastrophic Event Within Two Years
The 2023 World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, has filled us with lots of uplifting predictions, like how companies will soon decode our brain waves. The latest warns of a global catastrophic cyber event in the very near future.
“The most striking finding that we’ve found,” WEF managing director Jeremy Jurgens said during a presentation highlighting the WEF Global Security Outlook Report 2023, “is that 93% of cyber leaders, and 86% of cyber business leaders, believe that the geopolitical instability makes a catastrophic cyber event likely in the next two years. This far exceeds anything that we’ve seen in previous surveys.”
“This is a global threat,” Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General of Interpol, said during the presentation. “It calls for a global response and enhanced and coordinated action.” He said the increased profits that the multiple bad “actors” reap from cybercrime should encourage world leaders to work together to make it a priority as they face “new sophisticated tools.”
Edi Rama, Albania’s prime minister, spoke during the presentation, saying that the growth of the cybercrime industry—from $3 trillion in 2015 to an expected $10.5 trillion in 2025, Rama says during the presentation—means that if cybercrime was a state, it would be the third largest global economy after the U.S. and China.
“Let’s imagine an exponential multitude of viruses that mutate everyday exponentially while not threatening our body, but the bodies we live in, our organizations, our countries, our system, then, you know, it could be just apocalypse. It’s about viruses that can not only block our way of living, but can control it and deviate it.”
-www.msn.com, 9 March 2023
Arno's Commentary
We note the words, “global threat … global response … world leaders to work together.” The prestigious World Economic Forum has previously published their opinions regarding coming catastrophic events, yet it never happened to the extent they reported.
It seems the world’s number one enemy is no longer a certain designated nation, but rather the invisible: cybercrime. This enemy is new, but as past history teaches, an answer will be found; the enemy will be contained if not defeated. There is simply no way to avoid cooperation with all nations of the world. Thus we see once again, globalism is not a conspiracy but a natural progressive development within the technological world.