Schwab & Brin: Predictive Tech Could Make Elections Obsolete—Democracy at Risk

When Klaus Schwab—in conversation with Google founder Sergey Brin—got giddy at the thought of a future without elections?

"Digital technologies mainly have an analytical power. Now we go into a predictive power... and your company is very much involved in it."

"But then the next step could be to go into prescriptive mode, which means you do not even have to have elections anymore... because we know what the result will be."