THE NEXT PANDEMIC?
OKAY, I hear you: "What!? A next pandemic? More dystopian Sci-Fi? I just want things to get back to normal..." Unfortunately (1) this pandemic will plausibly be followed by another (...and another, and...); (2) based on what I like to call Sci-Fu, or science-based futuring rather than dystopian or utopian Sci-Fi; (3) things will never likely return to pre-COVID-19 days. Don't believe (or want to believe)? Would you believe Bill Gates (at https://www.pcma.org/bill-gates-7-pre...)?
If you are convinced, as I am, that COVID-19 was the "shot across the bow" giving us a chance to face socially crippling issues that we've come to learn can accompany a pandemic including financial disruption, large-scale unemployment, social upheaval and political unrest. But, in my opinion, the "lesson" we still haven't learned is the need to update our myriad out-of-date infrastructures be they in government, business, transportation, education, internet or health care. So what is meant by "infrastructures" and how exactly are they outdated?
One of the biggest disruptions from COVID-19 is the need for a shift from large-scale, face-to-face public gatherings to safer individual, socially distant or digital interactions. I beleive this is true of all areas mentioned above. This new infrastructure could be a financial burden but could equally well foster broad technological innovation (my hope). In THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor I propose, for example, in the area of education, the development and implementation of a technologically advanced "interactive holographic" form of distance learning where both learners and mentors at home interact socially in a digital classroom.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
In the area of transportation, I propose, early on, the development and implementation of public forms of transportation, e.g. airplanes, ships, trains, buses and cars that incorporate new and unique technologies designed to physically protect passengers from airborne and object-borne diseases as well as harm from accidents. Later, I propose replacing cars and trucks with an individualized transportation system utilizing the strangeness of Quantum teleportation to move objects and later plants, animals and humans. Highways could provide walkways and bicyclist pathways, where participants who elect to "sponsor" and finance the care of plants and animals along the way would be recognized among citizens for their efforts. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Most of the infrastructures upon which we currently depend, and some, unfortunately hope to "return to" are neither appropriate nor viable. We as a nation, and arguably world, have maximally monitized out-dated infrastructures that call out for attention.
COVID-19 was the warning shot. It's up to youthful generations coming-of-age and young to middle age adult citizens to face these issues, address them, update our infrastructures and implement them nationally and world-wide. What could be more thrilling, romantic, erotic or salacious than that?
If you are convinced, as I am, that COVID-19 was the "shot across the bow" giving us a chance to face socially crippling issues that we've come to learn can accompany a pandemic including financial disruption, large-scale unemployment, social upheaval and political unrest. But, in my opinion, the "lesson" we still haven't learned is the need to update our myriad out-of-date infrastructures be they in government, business, transportation, education, internet or health care. So what is meant by "infrastructures" and how exactly are they outdated?
One of the biggest disruptions from COVID-19 is the need for a shift from large-scale, face-to-face public gatherings to safer individual, socially distant or digital interactions. I beleive this is true of all areas mentioned above. This new infrastructure could be a financial burden but could equally well foster broad technological innovation (my hope). In THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor I propose, for example, in the area of education, the development and implementation of a technologically advanced "interactive holographic" form of distance learning where both learners and mentors at home interact socially in a digital classroom.
The Edge of Madness
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
In the area of transportation, I propose, early on, the development and implementation of public forms of transportation, e.g. airplanes, ships, trains, buses and cars that incorporate new and unique technologies designed to physically protect passengers from airborne and object-borne diseases as well as harm from accidents. Later, I propose replacing cars and trucks with an individualized transportation system utilizing the strangeness of Quantum teleportation to move objects and later plants, animals and humans. Highways could provide walkways and bicyclist pathways, where participants who elect to "sponsor" and finance the care of plants and animals along the way would be recognized among citizens for their efforts. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Most of the infrastructures upon which we currently depend, and some, unfortunately hope to "return to" are neither appropriate nor viable. We as a nation, and arguably world, have maximally monitized out-dated infrastructures that call out for attention.
COVID-19 was the warning shot. It's up to youthful generations coming-of-age and young to middle age adult citizens to face these issues, address them, update our infrastructures and implement them nationally and world-wide. What could be more thrilling, romantic, erotic or salacious than that?
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