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

Here at Soonish HQ, I’ve had a lot of time lately to think about how the novel coronavirus spread so far so fast, and why we weren’t better prepared for a disaster like this. I’ve 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?