Daniel Pipes
(President of the Middle East Forum)
Copyright: www.danielpipes.org Publication at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 16 January 2017
Symposium introduction:
First it was the Arab Spring. Then the 2008 global financial crisis. Then Brexit. International conventional wisdom always seems unaware of the big changes about to unfold. There are in the present few facts about the future. Ten years ago, who would have predicted surprise developments such as negative interest rates, the potential breakup of the European Union, the Donald Trump effect, drones, the use of driverless cars, the rise of ISIS, the myriad uses of artificial intelligence and big data, U.S. energy independence, the emergence of the Zika virus, or the rate at which robots are taking away jobs...Read more