[THREAD] 10 Trends Being Accelerated By Covid19

1. Virtual Experience Economy- "Since the closing of the world’s most famous tourist attractions, new immersive technologies offer consumers virtual experiences to be lived comfortably seated on the couch."

2. Shop-streaming- "The combination of e-commerce and livestream has created this increasingly engaging, social and interactive online shopping mode that allows consumers to shop in real time directly from live-streaming videos."

3. Virtual Companions- "Many of us are now used to turning to digital assistants or online chatbots for support. With the development of AI, virtual personalities or so-called avatars may entertain us, educate us, become our friends or heal us."

4. Ambient Wellness-"The desire to remain safe and well will certainly be higher than before even post Covid19, and this will create a huge opportunity: to integrate measures to increase consumer wellness within the spaces they pass through."

5. Mentor to Protege Relationship- "With the sharp increase in hours spent online, consumers will be looking to spend some of their time more productively using platforms that enable them to develop new skills by connecting them with teachers, experts and mentors."

6. A-Commerce - "From the combination of the growing demand for contact-free interactions and the latest developments in robotics, the trend of automated commerce has received new impetus by developing the A-commerce IRL (In Real Life) branch."

7. Mental Wellness- "In today’s world people live with mental anguish caused by factors such as the threat of climate change or social inequality. Any business that can help improve the mental wellbeing of consumers will have opportunities for development in the future."

8. Open-source Solutions- "Open Source solutions, especially in critical times like the ones we are experiencing, continue to be the solutions that best fight the shared problems of our society." Ford, Uber and Lyft launched SharedStreets to help reduce urban transport issues.

9. Assisted Development- "Situations of isolation at home are leading a large part of the population to learn to make some of the usually outsourced domestic activities for themselves, turning to the on-demand economy."

10. Virtual Status Symbols- "Instead of buying material goods, people have embraced the idea of possessing virtual goods. The development of new technologies, the growing desire for sustainable consumption and the crisis will push virtual goods as new status symbols."