The Economist has put in 20 points the quasi civilizing changes that the 2020 pandemic will leave in our world. I summarize them:
1. Remote work is here to stay.
2. Offices close at a very high percentage. Large corporations will be remembered as the dying mammoths of 1980-2020.
3. Work tourism (congresses, conventions) will practically disappear.
4. The houses will be more technological and adapted to daily work. The physical location goes to a second term for companies, but to a first term for workers.
5. Productivity no longer depends on a boss who reviews, now it is through platforms that help measure results.
6. Everything repetitive becomes virtual: churches, museums, gyms, cinemas, entertainment.
7. Companies that do not invest at least 10 percent in new technologies will disappear.
8. Boom in entertainment tourism. People appreciate more than ever visiting nature, but with highly technological solutions.
9. The handling of personal data becomes more delicate. People go back to paying subscription stuff because of the sense of transparency that it involves.
10. The workforce is dramatically reduced. Simple operations go to artificial intelligence.
11. Education: study off-line e in-line it will be normal.
12. Remote medical consultations will be normal.
13. The personal economy is contracting. With new ways of shopping, people save more.
14. Online commerce grows.
15. We will move from covid to climate change as the main topic of the global conversation.
16. People, tired of so much information, prefer systems curated by experts.
17. Mental health becomes central, as a result of accumulated isolation.
18. Great technological solutions to vertebral problems take the stage: education, health, energy, security, politics, the destruction of the middle class.
19. Everything goes natural and healthy. Today is 100 percent natural.
20. The world sees 2021 as a new beginning: a rebirth. People rethink their personal goals for work, health, money, and spirituality.
The world changes and changes us. To continue doing the same without assuming the changes, is to go straight to the gorge (The Economist, https://econ.st/3toJHQe).
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