Disruptive and Turbulent

I'm here today to talk about post-COVID thinking.  Or, at least, what big thinkers are thinking about "the day after COVID."

That kind of grandiose and hazy stuff can be found all over.  Everyone wants to get in on the ground floor and maximize the new paradigms and innovative opportunities of the post-COVID space.  And so forth.  It wouldn't be so tiring if it weren't pretty much the only writing being done about the new world.

And it's mostly of the "wouldn't it be great?" variety that we've seen over and over.  But I did see one interesting idea recently, which was connected to an extensive series of videos of "big thinkers" talking about the new world.  The upshot is:  Many changes that were coming, slowly, or insisted on, or stalled, will break free and start happening, like an ice jam breaking up in the spring.  

Business, education and politics will be more disruptive and turbulent; changes brought about, or exacerbated, by the pandemic, will continue and expand.   Telemedicine "is here to stay," and every company will become much more digital than they've ever been, and "...will have to take a great deal of its commerce, interactions and workforce online."  And there will be more robots than ever!

I only read the article summarizing the themes of the videos, because there are ninety-nine of them and each is at least five minutes long, meaning that there are eight hours of video.  It might be fun to look in on a few to see what's what.  I'll do this myself, and let you know if the big thinkers have anything interesting or important to say about the new world.