2022: Unpredictability as a constant
Keywords:
COVID, unpredictability, uncertainty, pandemic, geopolitics, futureAbstract
Last January 18th, 2021 the journal The Economist published a short article titled "The new normal is already here. Get used to it." The article started with an interesting phrase: "The era of predictable unpredictability is not going away". This sentence seems like a paradox and is not new per se, it is relevant since we are living in a world that, after two years of the beginning of the pandemic, it faces quick transformations.
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