My latest article for 3 Quarks Daily: The World After COVID-19:
"But the changes will not be the same everywhere because the conditions
and cultures vary so much across the world. It is impossible – even for a
relatively ignorant armchair thinker with no skin in the game – to look
at all the possibilities, so I will confine my wild speculations to
geopolitics with a brief nod to cultural and social norms. Of course, if
some sort of economic ventilator can be found to keep the world economy
breathing until a solution emerges, things may go very differently, but
that is the dull stuff of management and policy. This piece should be
read as an exercise in imagination – a synopsis for a semi-dystopian
novel that will never be written."
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