A long view with links to useful sources. O’Reilly draws on scenario planning as a rationale for thinking big as we try to address the post pandemic world.
The 20th century didn’t really begin in the year 1900, it began in 1914, when the assassination of Austrian Archduke Ferdinand triggered long-simmering international tensions and the world slid, seemingly inexorably, into a great world war, followed by a roaring return to seeming normality and then a crash into a decade-long worldwide depression and another catastrophic war. Empires were dissolved, an entire way of life swept away. A new, more prosperous world emerged only through the process of rebuilding
Source: Welcome to the 21st Century: How To Plan For The Post-Covid Future – O’Reilly Media