Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab with Nicholas Davis

A robotic case for a more human future

There were times reading this book when your reviewer wondered whether it might have been written by a robot, such was the clunking lifelessness of the prose. All this blinking automaton would have needed to do was to machine-read the World Economic Forum’s back catalogue and churn out a 274-page text of the buzziest phrases and most common clichés.