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Thread: How #COVID2019 could change the world forever. It is amazing how we find ourselves in the midst of a habit changing evolutionary Black Swan event in the #Corona pandemic. Personal meetings, large scale employment, newspapers, data, delivery boy... Read 1/1

I stopped physical newspapers a few years ago. But notice how the #Lockdown21 is forcing almost all nps dependents to evolve into reading news on palm. A great percentage of them could permanently shift to digital. Beginning of the end of newspapers due to #COVID2019. 1/2

With the world clampdown on travel, see the increase in remote meetings via Video Conference. G20 and SAARC are the showcase of what future summits and meetings could be. Dovetails so well with climate change. A personal favorite positive #COVID fallout.
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The huge spike in dependence on the internet for everything from news to entertainment to shopping could leave a super huge residual habit even post the #COVID #lockdown world over, cementing the 'Data Is The New Oil' theme of IR4.0 1/4

Delivery boys! Do you see them more often already? Do you already see more clearly the benefits of outsourcing much of shopping? So wait for delivery boys to become an institution post #COVID #lockdown world over. 1/5

Employees and employers have tasted blood for different reasons. The world would meet less and #WorkFromHome more even post #COVID. Employees save commute time, become more productive. Employers save on establishment costs. Win-win. 1/6

With all the staggering and splitting of work teams put in place as #SocialDistancing measures, organizations have realized they can make do with much less employees. Brace for downturn in employment numbers post #COVID heralding a new global challenge. 1/7

So, have enumerated 6 evolutionary changes for the world post #COVID:

1. Data Is Boss
2. VC for Summits/Meets
3. Delivery Boys
4. Unemployment
5. Work From Home
6. No Newspapers.

Shall return with a long one on this thread with more observations as #COVID progresses. 1/8 Ends.