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Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible: How One Futurist Frames the Pandemic

Published: May 12, 2020, 10:30 a.m.

Here at Soonish HQ, I\u2019ve had a lot of time lately to think about how the novel coronavirus spread so far so fast, and why we weren\u2019t better prepared for a disaster like this. I\u2019ve been puzzling over one question in particular: What can the art of futurism tell us about how this pandemic arrived and what kind of world is likely to emerge after it passes?