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This 20 minute video show Terry Irwin, Director of the Transition Design Institute at Carnegie Mellon University introducing the Transition Design approach and looking at COVID-19 in the U.S. through the lens of Transition Design.

Games saving humanity

How pandemic crises have contributed to change the course of history... Short article.

Scoble's musing are as always interesting. He also provides a 'future signal' by referring to a patent by Apple for a wearable which potentially could warn you have COVID-19 or other diseases before you even have any obvious physical symptoms.

The only problem is, as Edward O. Wilson so succinctly put it, "we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." So how do we overcome our Paleolithic emotions (like fear, jealousy, and greed) and our medieval institutions (US health care, anyone?) to deploy our godlike technologies?

The IFTF explains how futurism can be used in times of pandemic

How to deal with a hybrid workforce