“The world is everything that is the case.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pre-Crisis:
Weak/Strong Signals
Dawn of COVID-19
Fear
Uncertainty
Confusion
Crisis:
Disaster (Emergency)
Initial Response
Imperfect knowledge
Reactive - behind the curve
Disjointed global initiatives
Lockdown
Remote working/furlough
Pro-active: vaccine research
Key worker
Vaccine administered
Crisis:
Secondary Disaster
Continued Response
Further lockdowns
Economic
Mental health
Further vaccines administered
Post-Crisis
New Normal
Blended working
Attitudes to work
Secondary Crises
Energy, inflation, Ukrainian, etc.
Long-term effects on children?
Stability
“All watched over by machines of loving grace.”
Richard Brautigan
Horizon-Gazing
(B)leading-edge innovation
Holacracy, homophily, heterophily - objectivism?
Home-schooling and educational alternatives
3D & 4D Printing
Late-stage capitalism - neoliberalism?
Future Project Management
Industrie 4.0
Internet of all things
Learning companion
AI assisted learning
The four futures of work: big tech. economy; precision economy; exodus economy; empathy economy.
From Bell Curve to Shark Fin
The world is getting faster, faster
Blue or Red Ocean Strategy?
Industrie 5.0
Cyber-physical world: Robots to Cobots
Downloading knowledge & wisdom?
‘Everything is data’ hypothesis
alan.richards@coventry.ac.uk
Credits:
Created with images by fernandozhiminaicela - "covid-19 coronavirus pandemic" • BlenderTimer - "covid-19 coronavirus infection" • toyquests - "covid 19 coronavirus dystopia" • MintBlack4u - "coronavirus disease covid-2019 coronavirus corona" • leo2014 - "face mask covid-19 epidemic" • Tumisu - "coronavirus virus mask" • fernandozhiminaicela - "covid-19 coronavirus quarantine" • geralt - "industry industry 4 web" • geralt - "industry industry 4 web" • bluegroper - "shark great barrier reef underwater" • geralt - "hand robot human" • geralt - "brain question mark alzheimer's"