💡 Six scenarios for the post-pandemic world

David Galbraith on social interactions, VC, trade, real estate, (geo)politics

Hi, it’s Azeem. This is the second part of a two-part essay written by EV member David Galbraith.

In the first part, David explored why the pandemic will accelerate changes that were already under way. Here, he will present how he sees the six segments of our world changing in the aftermath of the pandemic. 

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The Post-Coronavirus Scenarios Based on Flow Changes

Social interactions and communications scenarios

Most changes to social behavior over the last decade can be viewed through the lens of the counterreaction to increased virtual connectivity via the Internet and physical connectivity from globalization. On the virtual side, the original utopian vision of the Internet gave way to security attacks such as Stuxnet, a cyber weapon thought to have been responsible for the damage to Iran’s nuclear weapons program which was subsequently found to have infected many industrial control systems. We also saw state-sp…