I hope and I believe that in five years, we will focus more on human relationships not stuff, the importance of all human beings and their rights, and the ways in which we can be a better society working together despite our differences.

In five years, I expect us to have long since reached the boiling point that leads to reining in an almost entirely unregulated technology sector to contend with how technology has been weaponized against individuals, society, and democracy.

My bet is that movie theaters won’t exist.

The shift towards remote work can potentially help better-educated senior citizens the most, enabling them to perform many jobs from the comfort of their homes or to participate in the so-called gig economy.

The pandemic will demonstrate that digital tools should not be the default response to social crises.

If we want to be secure against these crises and more, we need to add inefficiency back into our systems.

Society will learn to treat farmworkers with gratitude and dignity.

Art and creativity will also help us redefine ourselves in the context of a new reality.

The hour-by-hour quantification of the status of bodily fluids—heretofore the purview of diabetics and hypochondriacs—will be standard preoccupations of everyday life.

Gen Z’s identity formation is a series of taking positions on a crisis with explicit political consequences.

In a time of loss and deep suffering, new forms of spontaneous social infrastructure have emerged.

Covid-19 is an X-ray of whiteness, inequality, and ineffectual government as well as a rehearsal for climate catastrophe.

There’s nothing profound in telling the truth, and we cannot afford to lose this time that we are capturing right now.

As the survivalist mentality wanes and job security becomes more relaxed, an occupational gratitude will give way to a meditation on that work which was worth dying for.

In five years, many of us will still be working from office settings, but we will do so less often, with trepidation.

This is the time to build a new social contract between business and society, and to rebuild the economy in a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative way.

In a post-coronavirus world, virtual events and livestreaming will democratize live events, allowing for more people in more places to tune in to types of events that were previously unavailable to them.

Digital will play a larger role in the way Africans live in five years because of coronavirus.

It can no longer be accepted that location determines your right to reliable, high-speed connectivity, which today is a vital utility.

I hope the world accepts, adopts, and practices the safe, elegant and 4,000-year old Indian form of greeting—namaste (folding both the hands)—rather than touching elbows, which looks a little bit combative!

Be prepared to see entirely new planned communities pop up that are built with the intention of balancing the demand for open space with the need for urban amenities.

‘Healthy homes’ will become increasingly prevalent as we are more aware of the way diseases are transmitted.

I think the increase in people eating at home will be one of the behaviors that sticks with us.

I see three connected trends accelerated by the global coronavirus crisis—localization, digitalization, and socialization of risks.

We’re seeing consumers move away from incumbent financial institutions in favor of challenger players that offer a faster pace of innovation, superior customer experience, and better affordability of service—particularly as we move toward a “no touch” economy.

As a result of the pandemic, I think life insurance will become dramatically easier to buy.

In five years’ time, our lives will be dominated by technology. The future is technology.

One of the things that we very clearly believe has changed once and for all is online grocery shopping.

My mission in a post-Covid world is to have my extended family not so extended.

The age-old technology of using animals for meat will continue to be replaced by more capable, efficient, and safer technologies like plant-based meat.

Meetings, doctor visits, even regular phone calls will benefit from massive advancements in VR/AR technologies.

While there is consensus that the coronavirus crisis has increased awareness of the many connections between climate and health, I predict that in five years, it will have set us back in tackling one of the major public health emergencies of our time: extreme heat.

One thing we can bet on is much more inequality… and coronavirus will play a significant part in that.

The political clout these generations will generate should lead to more focused attention on racial justice and calls for greater government intervention toward reducing racial inequalities of all types.

This catalytic moment offers us a unique opportunity to reimagine how students learn and, in turn, adjust our education systems and models for the future.

Over the next five years, citizens will demand that the government set the goals for AI’s impact on society, but policymakers and technology companies will recognize that governments’ regulatory toolkit is ill-suited to the speed of AI development and the exponential growth of its applications in society.

The pandemic (hopefully) has given us urgency to value and protect low-wage work in America in a whole new way.

People will have realized that they can work remotely, that they don’t have to commute at least one or two days per week. The digital tools we will have to enable that will improve immensely, and I think we will enjoy it.

The isolation and extreme hardship that has resulted from… the collective mismanagement of the virus will also result in a reckoning in which millions more will recognize the direct linkages between political participation—or the lack thereof—and its consequences.

In five years, I believe we’ll see a world where we’re both moving faster and more thoughtfully in the field of medicine.

The next five years need to be a time of drastic reengineering of our systems and structures to eliminate health disparities and know that in crisis we have the ability to ensure that resources and care are allocated equitably.

With the development of a vaccine in the next five years, enough people will be immune to the Covid-19 virus that people will largely have put this pandemic behind them.

Telemedicine will be fundamental to how healthcare is delivered, and it may look different than the telemedicine model we’re familiar with today.

The way in which we travel, and think about traveling, has changed, and I’m sure this will be long-term.

In just its first few weeks, the pandemic—and even the wealthiest governments’ failure to respond to it—made all the fault lines, injustices, and inequalities that define our societies impossible to ignore.

We are going to bring our values to bear on who deserves to be enriched, because of how much they have enriched us all through their work and their care when nothing else mattered.

I think the world’s major cities will be far more bikeable—and as a result there will be lots more people biking.

The forces of AI and automation will be drastically sped up by the response to the pandemic.

Thinking about my life—be it day-to-day family life, my work, my music, my play, my volunteering with organizations—it’s all, in fact, data. It is data I control. It all connects together.

In five years, people will prefer to meet online first before meeting in person.

One of the things all this experimentation has led to is that people will be willing to try new things.

In many ways, social distancing and stay-at-home orders have leveled the playing field for business owners.

I think we’ll settle back into our patterns.

We will no longer rely on governments or markets alone to take care of us. Instead we will rely on ground-up, hyperlocal neighborhood networks to get stuff done in times of crisis.