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1/n If you have been obsessing over what the post corona world would look like here are some great reads which I have gone through in the past week:
2/n Yuval Harari, in his typical dramatic style, talks about the possibility of leaning towards dystopian surveillance as opposed to citizen empowerment. And the lure of nationalist isolation over globalization. https://www.ft.com/content/19d90308-6858-11ea-a3c9-1fe6fedcca75
3/n " ...That is the nature of emergencies. They fast-forward historical processes. Decisions that in normal times could take years of deliberation are passed in a matter of hours...Entire countries serve as guinea-pigs in large-scale social experiments."
4/n This article voices the opinions of many experts. The common themes/predictions include a short term move towards nationalism, domestic supply chains with prioritization of redundancy over efficiency, a change in global leadership https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/20/world-order-after-coroanvirus-pandemic/
5/n "In short, COVID-19 will create a world that is less open, less prosperous, and less free. It did not have to be this way, but the combination of a deadly virus, inadequate planning, and incompetent leadership has placed humanity on a new and worrisome path."
6/n This provides a perspective on the collapse of traditional service industry (analogue businesses) including hotels, restaurants and reinforcement of tech giants. Also an interesting take on the religious challenges in the absence of communal rites. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/03/world-coronavirus-pandemic-200326055223989.html
7/n "..technology will be as ubiquitous as it is now, if not more, and tech companies will become even more powerful and dominant..."
"religion - one of the biggest source of culture for the human being, the epistemology of society - will never again be the same. "
"religion - one of the biggest source of culture for the human being, the epistemology of society - will never again be the same. "
8/n By far the most detailed piece. Speaks about the effects on various sectors ranging from tech to govt.
An interesting observation is the return towards factual science driven dialogues instead of fact-lite discourse that had become commonplace of late https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579
An interesting observation is the return towards factual science driven dialogues instead of fact-lite discourse that had become commonplace of late https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/19/coronavirus-effect-economy-life-society-analysis-covid-135579
9/n "The oil and gas industry has been waging a decades-long war against truth and science...America for several years has become a fundamentally unserious country...The COVID-19 crisis ... has already forced people back to accepting that expertise matters"
