Davos tells the world to be optimistic, the world does not care.

The one-word conclusion one could take from the Davos' World Economic Forum (WEF) 2011 meeting from last week would be "Optimism" because that was what every big corporation CEO and every government leader were continuously saying, but everybody knows saying something a lot of times does not make it more real than saying it for the first time. 

For sure this optimism cannot be based on the Global Risks 2011 report that the World Economic Forum published because the data shown there is quite worrying. Let us have a quick look at this data.

Social Media, the ultimate WMD.

When George W. Bush decided to invade Iraq one of the main reasons (of the public and politically correct ones) was not only to free the Iraqis from the oppression of Saddam Hussein, but to stop the menace Saddam's Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD for short) posed to the stability of the Gulf region. After months long of thorough search for said WMDs none was found. Maybe they were looking for the wrong WMD...

If you look at all the civil unrest happening across Arab countries in the last weeks you can clearly see that the ultimate WMD is neither a nerve gas nor a new virus, but Twitter, Facebook and social media in general.