The article by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) discusses possible political, economic, and social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the lessons to be learnt by the world, and the EU in particular, from this crisis.
The world is trying to understand the impact caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainty still remains, in this issue of the annual «Trend Vision 2020. Russia» report experts talk about trends, signals of change and how to analyze them, in order to make the future, in which this world crisis is not the last one, to be not a frightening «black box», but a platform for exciting experiments for successful brands and companies focused on long-term sustainability.
In 2011 Eric Schmidt one of the most renowned figures in the IT industry and at the time Executive Chairman of Google spoke at the session «The World According to Google» at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. What he said turned out to be remarkably prophetic, particularly when viewed from the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic and our experience of self-isolation.