Back in March 2020, my colleagues at the Frederick S Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University thought that it might be useful to begin thinking about “the day after coronavirus”. For a research centre dedicated to longer-term thinking, it made sense to ask what our post-Covid-19 world might look like.
In the months that followed, I learned many things. Most importantly, I learned there is no “going back to normal”.
My season of learning
The project took on a life of its own. Over 190 days, we released 103 videos. Each was around five minutes long, with one simple question: How might Covid-19 impact our future? Watch the full video series here.
I interviewed leading thinkers on 101 distinct topics – from money to debt, supply chains to trade, work to robots, journalism to politics, water to food, climate change to human rights, e-commerce to cybersecurity, despair to mental health, gender to racism, fine arts to literature, and…