How the world will change
after COVID 19 PANDEMIC?

Agenda del Futuro is a collaborative project that wants to offer an in-depth and lateral point of view with respect to the mainstream approach.

In this first incarnation, Agenda del Futuro sets itself the goal of recounting the greatest emergency of the last fifty years. We are obviously referring to the Coronavirus pandemic: in these pages we will discuss the unknowns and perspectives of the post-Covid 19 world. A critical reflection on the causes that produced a planetary event of this magnitude, of course. But also a tool to imagine what awaits us in the short and medium term.

Once the emergency phase has ended and the health crisis has been resolved, in fact, some fundamental questions will have to be answered. Eg:

• How did this come about? Whose fault is it, if there is fault?
• How much did this cost us? In terms of human lives, of course, but also as an economic, cultural, socio-psychological, ethical impact?
• What will we have to give up to return to a simulacrum of normality? How will the future change? What drifts will we experience? What will the new order of power be like at local, national or planetary level?
• What will be the priorities and the lessons that this global tragedy has taught us? How can we not fall into an even worse situation than we are going through again?

Of course we don’t have an answer. But we have endeavored to identify some key elements. Some, let’s call them, “constant elements” that can illuminate the road or at least make it a little less harsh. With two premises.

First: it is not our intention to replace epidemiologists, scientists, experts of mathematical prediction systems, specialized technicians. We are not and this is not the place to make unsubstantiated speculations. We will limit ourselves to finding an organic vision for apparently unconnected facts.

Second: we would like to produce reflections that do not necessarily depend on the evolution of the chronicle and its sudden shifts. If in the coming weeks or months the terms of this pandemic also change radically, we would like these reflections to continue to show their relevance.

In this space we would therefore like to think broadly, taking into consideration the elements available today and considered reliable. To arrive at a reflection that prescinds from the single datum or the event of the last hour. Let’s start with what we know.