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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