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Stephen Downes

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I don't think the new normal or the next normal is arriving just yet, but we can see ahead to think that it might be coming in a few months. This is McKinsey's take on what that looks like. You'll need patience with this page - there's a lot of scrolling for bits of text (or you can use the Tranquility Reader Firefox extension, like I did). Anyhow, McKinsey expects a consumer rebound, consumer travel (but not so much business travel), a wave of entrepreneurs, an acceleration of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (ie., artificial intelligence), changes in shopping behaviour (ie., to online+delivery), more work from home, biopharma, environmental issues, and way down at the bottom (and probably most significant) government attempts to tackle debt.

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