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Coggle Jam #2
What we might see in a
COVID-50 FUTURE

Social changes

Tech changes

Economic changes

Environmental changes

Political changes

Designer immune systems (BLOOD MUSIC book)

No physical money (STAR TREK tv)

Pharma hackers (AUTONOMOUS book)

Gene-engineered fast growing "weed" used to change climate (WAR OF THE WORLDS book)

Forced wildlife mutations (ANNIHILATION movie)

Permanent mandatory isolation (THE WHITE PLAGUE book)

Decentralized/Localized governance (ISLAND book)

Public health & genetics monitoring (GATTACA movie)

No-contact sex (DEMOLITION MAN movie)

More formal etiquette (DIAMOND AGE book)

Artificial wombs (THE MATRIX movie)

Tele-operated robot bodies (SURROGATES movie)

Health discrimination (GATTACA movie)

Cash disappears

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Stimulus checks from 2020 finally arrive

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Touch is only via Haptics

Only communicate telepathically

Emotions are detected based by devices (Big Hero Six).

Multi-generation households to provide more support to family members, and reduce costs

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Ventilator masks are worn 24/7 like glasses (Vent-crafters store at the mall?)

More radio plays and less live performances

Greetings change: not just handshakes but the cheek kisses more popular in Europe and ME and so on

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Each household has it's own supply of ventilators and medical gear (Robot doctors)

We still can't get zoom backgrounds to work well

All essential workers are robots

Masked Fashion Industry on the rise

Technological regression based on pastoral idealism fallacy

Food as money (Hunger Games)

Farming on Antarctica

Robots to do farming

We've evolved from airborne virus transmission to thought based infections

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Global warming goes away

Personal respiration is inexpensive and trivial. No one catches viruses.

Demand for better air quality drives EV adoption and more renewables

More wildlife in urban areas (due to less human activity)

Politicians issue pandemic regulations via twitter...

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Federal govt goes away. States / Provinces call all the shots for its citizens

Individuals are sovereign and cooperate privately w/o government intervention or necessity

Passports linked to health

Direct democracy governance from comfort of homes

Fascism/authoritarian (V for Vendetta)

Rise of Santocracy (Rule of the Healthy and Genetically-Endowed over the Unhealthy). Sante comes from French word for health

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More resilient economy not only dependant on people spending money

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shared biometric measurements via app

Health care for the wealthy (Elysium)

Universal basic incomes

Personal Genetic Sequencing (Novel Personal Virus Detection)

breakdown of political structure to city-states (Alexandria in TWD)

New equilibrium in the world of work, gig economy vs full time traditional

More FinTech in use, in many places, than in 2020 was.

3D printing substitutes shipping of products

More local production, less globalized supply chains

Gadjets for Healthness

Greater accessibility to things like conferences because they're virtual (fewer travel/money barriers)

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New methods of producing food to cover those worst impacted by economic distress

War Politics and more control

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A cleaner world

Control by elites/oligarchy

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Control by the masses with tyranny of the majority

We vote on all legislation by smartwach (Zardoz)

Virus images become art (microscopic view)

Lung swap outs so we all have super lungs

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Robots/Spiritual Machines in Parliament

Mind upload to a metaverse

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Grow lungs, print 3D lungs

More global collaboration as we connect more online

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