Realistically most of the big changes that lie ahead were already happening. It’s largely an excuse for companies to make the changes they were reluctant to make, and its forced customers to adopt new behaviors they didn’t know about or didn’t feel the need to do before. There are some exceptions,but not many. If you want to know the future of retail or hotels or offices, rather than outlandish predictions based on survival rates of a virus on Copper surfaces or new 3D printed face shields, you could just phone someone in Sydney, Savannah or Roseboro ( North Carolina ) And while you consider the lockdown a slightly less interesting chapter of Eat.Pray.Love for your life, Homeschooling and baking, but in situ. Please spare a thought for those terrified, devastated and hopeless, I’m tired of those that lack any empathy to see how life altering this will be not because of a new app, but because of something that doesn’t make our trendy trends deck like wealth inequality growing , deaths of despair or the ever widening digital divide. …see more