The chart below of weekly initial US unemployment claims puts into context the scope and scale of the economic and employment impact of the pandemic. The long horizontal scale of chart, giving us temporal perspective, actually hides the extent of the problem, with the spike at the end in fact comprising three weeks of new […]
The evidence is now in on what was already clear: the advertising and marketing industries are getting slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. However there are ways that the industry, particularly from an advertiser perspective, could reinvent itself.
When I searched my blog for mentions of pandemic, one mention came up in a post I wrote in 2014 on Four scenarios for 2030. One of the scenarios from that exercise may be enormously relevant today.
Since I do significant work on the future of travel, I was sought out for an interview earlier today about the future of air travel, something very much up in the air at the moment, one could say! Below are some of the points I shared with the journalist.
The good news is that over the last week new cases are plateauing or even reducing in many countries, including Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Australia, and a range of Western European countries. Of course new cases are still rising alarmingly in other countries, most notably the US, though also in UK, Canada, and France. The chart […]
News is just out that Facebook has locked up an exclusive deal with microLED leader Plessey to supply next-generation micro displays to power augmented reality glasses. Read on for the context and implications… Beyond smartphones will likely be smartglasses After the TV and desktop came the laptop and tablet and then the smartphone. The progress […]
While there are plenty of excellent data sources and visualizations of the state of the COVID-19 pandemic globally, I haven’t seen ones that provide the comparisons that I’m looking for, so I created this chart:
Today, most countries in the world are enforcing social distancing and in many cases lockdowns, forcing people to stay at home, sometimes at pain of fines or imprisonment. This is immensely challenging, but if executed well it will curtail the spread of the virus so we can move past the peak of infections into the […]
There is no business that has not been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Some companies, in industries ranging from consumer staples to video-conferencing, are struggling to cope with soaring demand Yet most are being slammed by factors including economic concerns, reduced spending, or simple inability of their customers to come to them.
The issues I raised in my recent blog post We can stop the pandemic in its tracks, we just need to lose all privacy. Are we prepared for that? are, fortunately, becoming very much a topic of public debate. Here are some of the more interesting articles that have recently emerged framing this very important […]
