People Spend More, Take More Risks —and Demand More of Politicians The Cholera pandemic of the early 1830s hit France hard. It wiped out nearly 3% of Parisians in a month, and hospitals were overwhelmed by patients...
Covid-19 and Climate Change: How to Apply the Lessons of the Pandemic to the Climate Emergency
Introduction It has been 16 months since the first reports of a new respiratory illness emerged from Wuhan. In that time, there have been more than 131 million confirmed cases and more than 2.85 million deaths...
The New Necessary: How We Future-Proof for the Next Pandemic
Foreword by Ara Darzi In little over a year, the most lethal pandemic of the 21st century has spread to every quarter of the globe, claimed 2.5 million lives, caused terrible suffering, and wrecked families and...
3 Types of SaaS Businesses Likely to Thrive in a Post-COVID World
At this point, it seems safe to say that the novel coronavirus represents one of the most significant business disruptions in the past several decades. Although a transition to remote work and e-commerce was already in...
This is Your COVID Wake-Up Call: It is 100 Seconds to Midnight
Founded in 1945, by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years...