Prof. Klaus Schwab labels 2015 a pivotal year for the world between reintegration and disintegration… agreeing with the Kondratieff/long wave theorists that we are emerging from the winter period that followed the post WWII world structure. I believe he is correct and he forecasts the 1500 participants in Davos will join us in directing their attention on what’s next, perhaps for the coming two generations. An important event covered online with 100 of the 280 sessions at the meeting and priced at zip rather than the very recent increase of Swiss expenditures for meals/hotels/transportation of 20% for dollar holders… a reminder that catastrophic events can strike anywhere, anytime.
I shall be watching many of the sessions via Roku/livestream on TV, although the coverage will be online at the URL above. I’m assuming that many of the recorded sessions will be archived but, if not for the ones you want, remember the six hour time difference between EDT and Eurotime…thus a nine o’clock morning meeting in Davos is 0300 here on Casey Key.
There will be a number of press briefings by WSJ and others which can be more informative than the meetings. And there will be two-way coverage on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn among others. I probably will follow LinkedIn but not the others.
If you feel tired by the meetings, as I do as the week continues, you can remember that you could be there, spending several hundred thousand dollars, existing on about 4 hours of nightly sleep, walking through the crowded, snowy streets to the Kongresshall to get what you are getting at your computer or TV. Don’t feel deprived… I’ve done it both ways.